BEIRUT: More than 50 rebels and jihadists were killed in fighting in northeast Syria’s Hasakeh province as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran a town bordering Iraq, an NGO said on Sunday (Monday in Manila).

“The number of Al-Nusra Front and rebel fighters killed in battles [Saturday] against ISIL in the strategic town of Markada in the south of Hasake province has risen to 39,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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