The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Thursday controlled a gas field in the Syrian City of Homs, killed and injured at least 350 people from Syrian regimes troops, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The ISIL on Thursday seized a gas field in Homs after its troops had clashed with President Bashar Al-Assad's forces, the observatory said in a statement. It added that at least 23 members from Al-Assad's forces were killed and over 320 others, including guards, engineers and workers, were injured.
some 30 government troops had managed to escape to the nearby Hajjar field, the Observatory added.
In a related development, Al-Assad's forces supported by national defence forces clashed violently with Al-Nusra Front fighters in Homs.
The clashes between Assad's regime forces and Islamic Battalions fighters in Hama and Idleb provinces took the lives of at least 19 members of Islamic Battalions members.