Marea

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants are believed to be responsible for sulfur mustard gas attacks in Syria and Iraq last year, the United States said on Feb. 17.

Mustard gas was used during summer fighting in Syria but it was not clear by whom, the global chemical weapons watchdog said on Nov 5, while jihadists seized a key town from regime forces.

France will carry out its first air strikes on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) jihadist group in Syria "in the coming weeks," Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Sept.16.
 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters seized five villages from rebel forces in Syria's northern Aleppo province overnight and entered the outskirts of a key opposition bastion there, a monitor said on Aug. 27.
The jihadist group seized three villages near the town of Marea and entered its southern outskirts, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. 

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has launched a new offensive against Syrian rebels north of Aleppo, gaining ground near the Turkish-Syrian border, as the United States beefs up its military presence at a Turkish base ahead of large operations against the jihadist group. 

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants have launched a new offensive against Syrian rebels north of Aleppo, gaining ground near the Turkish-Syrian border in an area where Turkey and the United States aim to create an area free of the jihadist group.

A Syrian rebel alliance has pushed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group jihadists further away from one of its key supply routes from neighbouring Turkey, a monitoring group said June 13. 
 

The Islamic State o?f Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group seized territory from both Syrian government forces and rival rebels over the weekend further expanding the caliphate it has proclaimed straddling Iraq and Syria.

The toll from two alleged Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) car bombings overnight of rebels in Syria's Aleppo province has risen to at least 27 people, a monitor said on April 8.
      

Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group have taken control of a string of villages in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said on Wednesday.