Syrian army, Islamic State battle for central oilfield

Islamic State fighters battled government forces on Tuesday at central Syria's Jazal oilfield, the last such facility still partly under state control, a group monitoring the conflict reported. Clashes broke out at dawn at the site which has been shut down by several days of fighting, Rami Abdulrahman, from the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said. The Observatory, which monitors Syria's conflict through a network of sources on the ground, had said on Monday the militants had