[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has seized more territory in the central province of Homs amid intense festivities with government forces, Syrian activists say.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday's fighting killed at least 28 government troops and about 20 fighters from the ISIL. It said hundreds more were maimed.
ISIL has a presence in the eastern countryside of Homs and has been pushing west.
Twitter accounts affiliated with ISIL say its fighters reported advances northwest of the city of Palmyra, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named news agency reported.
Bebars al-Talawy, an activist based in Homs, said ISIL seized a large government ammunition warehouse outside Palmyra and was bombing a nearby government-controlled airport.
The reports of ISIL's advances could not be independently confirmed.
ISIL has continued to make gains in Syria despite loss of territory in neighbouring Iraq under aerial bombardment by the US-led coalition.
Fighters from the group seized large parts of the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus in April.