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Reuters: Islamic State takes over town in Syria's western Homs province: monitor
Islamic State fighters seized the Syrian town of Maheen in Homs province from government forces on Sunday, a monitoring group said, expanding their presence in Syria's west despite a Russian-backed bombing campaign against them.
Islamic State's strongholds in Syria are in the north and east, but it has increased its territory in Homs province since taking over the historic city of Palmyra earlier this year, and then Qaryatain, 15 kilometers east of Maheen.
The group began its attack late on Saturday using two suicide car bombs and by Sunday morning had taken over Maheen, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Update #1: Islamic State Seizes Central Syrian Town Near Key Highway -- NYT/AP
Update #2: IS overruns town in central Syria: monitor -- AFP
WNU Editor: The Syrian war appears to be intensifying .... and the Islamic State is also not giving the impression that they are a defeated force.
Islamic State Continues To Advance In Syria
November 01, 2015
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