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ISIS controls half of Syrian territory: activists

ISIS controls more than half of Syria's territory after its westwards advance into the central city of Palmyra, an activist group monitoring the war said Thursday. The militant group, which already controlled wide tracts of land in Syria's north and east, captured the ancient city late on...

ISIS overruns northern part of Syria's Palmyra: activists

Jihadis from ISIS took control of the northern sector of Syria's historic city of Palmyra Wednesday, activists said. "ISIS fighters seized the northern parts of the city, which amount to a third of Palmyra," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. "Regime...