Militant Islamic Group Isıl Seizes Town İn Syria

Hardline militant group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), has seized control of the town of Al-Yarubiyah in Syria, the Syrian Revolution General Commission has said. 



The ISIL seized Al-Yarubiyah in Syria's El Haseke province after clashing with Democratic Union Party forces, the Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.



Fierce clashes were continuing between the ISIL and the Free Syrian Army in some villages in the east of Aleppo, the statement added.



The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant is a hardline militant group fighting in the northern and eastern regions of war-torn Syria, in a bid to establish its own state.



The group is also present in Iraq, as its name indicates.



Syria has been gripped by constant fighting since the regime launched a violent crackdown in response to anti-government protests in March 2011, triggering a conflict that has spiraled into a civil war.



The UN has stopped updating its death toll for the country, saying the figures had become too difficult to verify.



At least 100,000 deaths were recorded in the last official count in July 2013.



More than two-and-a-half million people are registered as refugees in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq.



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