IS withdraws from Syria's Aleppo province: monitor

The Islamic State group no longer has a presence in Syria's Aleppo province after withdrawing from a series of villages where regime forces were advancing, a monitor said on Friday."IS withdrew from 17 towns and villages and is now effectively outside of Aleppo province after having a presence there for four years," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Regime forces had been advancing on a sliver of southeastern Aleppo province around a key highway linking Hama