Daesh militants retake nearly half of Syria border town: monitor

Daesh militants retake nearly half of Syria border town: monitor
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Summary Daesh had lost the town a day before in eastern Syria.

BEIRUT (AFP) - Militants launched a counter-attack on Albu Kamal in eastern Syria Friday and retook more than 40 percent of the town they lost a day earlier, a monitor said.

"IS started counter-attacking on Thursday night and retook more than 40 percent of the town of Albu Kamal," Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP. 

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