IS seizes city in executive Syria
Syrian soldiers unit a city of al-Quaryatayn in Syria’s executive Homs range Sunday. PHOTO: AFP
BEIRUT: The Islamic State organisation on Sunday seized a city in executive Syria famous as a pitch of eremite coexistence in a warn conflict opposite regime forces, a guard said.
The militants took control of Al-Qaryatain in a executive range of Homs early on Sunday, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights guard said.
Violent clashes pennyless out after a militants sneaked in, a Britain-based Observatory’s Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Government infantry had surrounded a town, where several Christian families are believed to be living, he said.
Al-Qaryatain was home to some 30,000 people before Syria’s fight pennyless out in 2011, 900 of them Christians.
Regime army recaptured Al-Qaryatain in Apr 2016 after 8 months of militants control.
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In early Aug 2015, IS abducted 270 Christians from a town, transporting them around 90 kilometres (55 miles) divided low in a Syria dried and locking them adult in an subterraneous dungeon. They were liberated 25 days later.
The same month, IS broken tools of a nunnery in a city and reduced a fifth-century sand section church to rubble regulating explosives and bulldozers.
73 Syria supervision fighters killed in IS attacks: monitor
Earlier this week a militants launched an conflict on supervision positions in Syria’s immeasurable Badiya desert, murdering during slightest 128 regime troops.
Syrian infantry pushed by a desert, that separates a categorical cities of a west from a Euphrates Valley this summer, and pennyless a years-long IS encircle on supervision enclaves in a eastern city of Deir Ezzor final month.
In further to a Russian-backed supervision offensive, a US-backed fondness of Kurdish and Arab fighters is battling a group, that is also underneath conflict in beside Iraq.
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