IS militants advancing in Iraq and Syria

Areas of Islamic State (IS)control as of May 20

Towns / cities under full or partial IS control

Support zone – areas free of significantaction against IS and which permit logistics and administrative support of IS forces

Areas under Kurdish administration
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TURKEY

LEBANON

Aleppo

3 SYRIA Damascus

JORDAN 1

SAUDI ARABIA

Raqqa

Kobane

Deir al-Zawr

Hasakah

Qaim

Sinjar

Baiji

Mosul

Tikrit

Haditha

IRAQ

ANBAR PROVINCE

IRAN

Irbil

Kirkuk

Baghdad

100km 60 miles
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1 Al-Tanf: IS militants seizelast border crossing between Syria and Iraq. Group now believed to control 50 percent of Syrian territory

2 Husaiba: IS pushing eastwards from Ramadi towards Habbaniya, where government forces are massing for counteroffensive

3 Palmyra: IS claim full control of strategic town and its 2,000-year-old ruins
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ANBAR PROVINCE

Ramadi 2

Habbaniya

Fallujah

River Euphrates

BAGHDAD

River Tigris

20km 12.5 miles
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Sources: Institute for the Study of War, wire agencies 

Picture: Google Earth

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