IS grabs territory from Syrian rebels near Turkish border

BEIRUT (AP) — Militants of the Islamic State group on Friday seized a string of villages from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border in rapid advances that forced the evacuation of a hospital and trapped tens of thousands of people amid heavy fighting, Syrian opposition activists and an international medical organization said.
The advances in the northern Aleppo province brought the militants to within three 3 kilometers(2 miles) of the rebel-held town of Azaz and cut off supplies to Marea