Posts Tagged ‘monitoring group’

ISIS near to total control of Syria’s ancient Palmyra – monitoring group

Ancient city of Palmyra in the heart of the Syrian desert (Reuters / Handout) Islamic State militants have taken control of almost all of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, a UNESCO landmark, according to a monitoring group. The city was captured after bloody clashes with the Syrian Army on Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for […]

IS suffers string of defeats in Syria but gaining in Iraq’s Ramadi

A United States Special Forces raid has killed 32 members of Islamic State in eastern Syria, including four senior officials, a monitoring group said on Sunday. The raid on al-Omar, one of the largest oilfields in the Deir Ezzor governorate, is mostly under the control of Islamic State. The operation marked a shift in the […]

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