Syria troops enter key IS-held town: monitor

Syrian government troops entered the last Islamic State group stronghold in the country's Homs province on Friday after jihadists began withdrawing, a monitor said.Al-Sukhna, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of the famed ancient city of Palmyra, is the last town on the road to the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, where a government garrison has held out under IS siege since early 2015.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, earlier reported clashes on the city's outsk