Islamic State terrorists seize two towns in Syria
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is now being called just Islamic State, continues to rampage the Middle East, now with militants capturing two towns in northern Syria Wednesday.
The towns of Akhtarin and Turkmanbareh of the northern Aleppo province were captured by IS fighters, along with several smaller villages. IS militants fought “Syrian rebels to take over the land,” according to the Aug. 13 ABC report.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group based in Britan, 31 Syrian rebels and eight IS militants were killed in the fighting. The capture of Akhtarin has strategic significance as the town is “the gate to the northern countryside of Aleppo,” said a local rebel commander who uses the name Abu Thabet.