Islamic State militants have entered the ancient ruins of Palmyra after taking control of the Syrian city, monitors say.
Insurgents swept into Palmyra's military air base, prison and intelligence headquarters on Wednesday and were now in the city's ancient sites, Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.
The Islamic State has seized Syria's last border crossing with Iraq after Syrian government forces withdrew, a monitoring group said today.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the militant group has taken control of the al-Tanf crossing, known as al-Waleed in Iraq.
The crossing is in Syria's Homs province, 150 miles from the historic city of Palmyra, the historic city IS seized from government forces.
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