(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State militants took back six towns from rebels near the border with Turkey on Monday, four days after losing it to a grouping of rebels, a monitoring group and activists said.
The ultra-hardline Islamist group seized the town of al-Rai from factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, part of months of back-and-forth fighting in northern Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Zaman al-Wasl reporter said ISIS had also recaptured villages of Tel Sfir, Qantra, Qura Ghouz, Qasajek and Tat Homs after fierce clashes with Hur Kilis Operations Room.
Islamic State has declared a cross-border Islamic caliphate in Syria and neighboring Iraq and is also battling other insurgent groups caught up in Syria's civil war, some of them backed by Turkey and Western powers.
It has made steady gains near the Azaz border crossing with Turkey since last May, but has been pushed back in a number of areas in recent months by rival rebels and Syrian government forces supported by Russian air strikes. (With Reuters)
The ultra-hardline Islamist group seized the town of al-Rai from factions fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, part of months of back-and-forth fighting in northern Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Zaman al-Wasl reporter said ISIS had also recaptured villages of Tel Sfir, Qantra, Qura Ghouz, Qasajek and Tat Homs after fierce clashes with Hur Kilis Operations Room.
Islamic State has declared a cross-border Islamic caliphate in Syria and neighboring Iraq and is also battling other insurgent groups caught up in Syria's civil war, some of them backed by Turkey and Western powers.
It has made steady gains near the Azaz border crossing with Turkey since last May, but has been pushed back in a number of areas in recent months by rival rebels and Syrian government forces supported by Russian air strikes. (With Reuters)
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