DEGRADED AND ULTIMATELY DESTROYED: Islamic State recaptures key border stronghold from Syrian rebels.

The jihadists seized the Syrian border town of Rai, roughly two miles from the Turkish border in Syria’s Aleppo province, in a counterassault against rebels fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, according to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The rebels had previously taken the town from the Islamic State on Thursday in what was hailed as a boost for U.S. and Turkish efforts to rout the extremists from Syrian territory along Turkey’s frontier.

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