ISIS Takes Air Force Base Northeast Syria; More Than 500 Dead

After days of fighting and a cost of more than 500 lives, ISIS fighters have captured a Syrian air force base in the northern part of the country. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights called the battle for the Tabqa air base one of the bloodiest confrontations of the civil war. Tabqa was the last foothold the Syrian regime had in the area; the rest having already fallen to ISIS. Syrian state-run television spun the battle differently, saying the air force was “regrouping” and that there had been a “successful evacuation of the airport.” ISIS has overtaken three military bases in Syria recently, presumably using large quantities of arms it seized in Iraq.