Syria Rebels Attacked by IS Militants, Government Troops

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT World http://ift.tt/1WrR71m
via IFTTT Islamic State militants entered a major Syrian opposition stronghold in the country's north on Saturday, clashing with rebels on the edges of the town as the extremist group builds on its most significant advance near the Turkish border in two years — even as it loses ground elsewhere in the country and in neighboring Iraq.