Fighters from al Qaedas Nusra Front withdrew from two towns in eastern Syria on Thursday, leaving most of the border province of Deir al-Zor under the control of advancing forces of the Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It said the Nusra Front pulled out of Mayadin and Shuhail, the groups regional stronghold, while local tribal fighters had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, which has also swept through Sunni Muslim provinces in Iraq. The Observatory, a British-based monitoring group, said the Islamic State, previously called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now controls an area of Syria five times the size of neighbouring Lebanon. reuters/article/2014/07/03/us-syria-crisis-islamicstate-idUSKBN0F80SO20140703
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 13:10:26 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015