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.
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From reading the DoD News I would get the impression that the Iraqi government is closing in on Ramadi. That would be significant defeat for ISIS. I am not seeing a lot of news about the tide of war in Iraq especially the southern portion.
But if ISIS is expanding to Homs, they must have reserves and so they will do something about Ramadi to shore it up or riposte.
If the Russians are dominating the sky's with a complete superiority over Isis how can they be expanding all over, I guess having air superiority doesn't matter ,I predict that Russia is going to change their tactics soon and we are going to see some bad things happen.
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