Warring parties in Syria switch sides when it comes to the oasis city of Palmyra. After reports that IS fighters were driven out of the center, which she sat had conquered yet, now declared that the militants town Sunday have again completely in your hands.
Nine months after they were chased his fighters from the Islamic State group back in the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, according to the BBC. They received Saturday the northwest of the city-owned and provided in the center started with Syrian government forces.
The extremists of the Islamic State (IS) on Thursday in the middle of Syria undertook a major attack. They have claimed, inter alia, the Syrian state news agency SANA attempt with a large army did break through the lines of the government forces northwest of Palmyra, 200 kilometers northwest of Damascus. After fierce fighting with the Syrian soldiers were air support, the attackers saw pulling forced back.
Jihadists of the movement Islamic State have in the Syrian city of Tadmur shot down a Russian military helicopter. The two Russian pilots are thereby killed, reported the Russian Defense Ministry.
