Beirut, July 3 (IANS/EFE) Sunni fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) Thursday gained control over the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ez-zor and **w occupy an area five times the size of Leba**n in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The London-based group, which cited activists in Syria, said ISIS had taken the east of Deir Ez-zor after entering the largest provincial city, Al Mayadeen, and **w also controlled the country's main oilfield in Al Omar, with a capacity to produce 73,000 barrels a day. The breakthrough came as fighters of the Al-Nusra Front, a branch of Al Qaeda in Syria, and other rebel factions pulled out of the province after an**uncing they would stop fighting the ISIS.
07-12-2014, 07:33 AM
ISIS controls area five times that of Leba**n in Syria
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