ISIL takes strategic Syrian province in major defeat for Assad

ISIL takes strategic Syrian province in major defeat for Assad

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has dealt the regime of President Bashar Assad its biggest defeat since the Sunni revolt in 2011, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy said ISIL has captured the Raqqa province and would soon take over the neighboring province of […]