Jihadists from the Islamic State group entered the northern city limits of ancient Palmyra Wednesday, seizing a state security building after intense fighting, a monitor says.
“The jihadists are once again in the north of Tadmur, after taking over the state security building,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, tells AFP, using Palmyra’s Arabic name.
“They also seized a checkpoint in the same area,” he says. IS’s new advance comes after fierce clashes with Syrian government forces Wednesday on the northern and eastern edges of Palmyra.
On Saturday, IS seized most of Palmyra’s northern neighborhoods, but was pushed out by regime forces less than 24 hours later.
Syrian citizens walking in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra on March 14, 2014. (AFP/JOSEPH EID)
— AFP
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