[Ynet] The al-Qaeda breakaway Islamic State of Iraq and al Shams captured a key Syrian town near the Iraq border from other rebels on Tuesday and advanced toward a stronghold of its main jihadi rivals, an activist group said.The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Boukamal fell to the hard boyz early Tuesday following days of battles between the group and other factions led by the Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate. Activists in the area could not immediately be reached and calls to Boukamal and nearby areas were not going through.