Islamic State militants have seized the final border crossing between Syria and Iraq. That's according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights which says militants are now in control of more than half of Syria's territory.
This all comes after declassified documents were published showing that as early as 2012, US intelligence predicted the rise of the Islamic State.
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