"And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness, the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a Thief in a jail is safe from another thief. "

Khalil Gibran (How I Became a Madman)

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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ISIS seizes control of Syria's Palmyra- Daily Star

BEIRUT: ISIS militants stormed the Syrian city of Palmyra Wednesday, seizing it from government forces in fierce fighting as civilians fled and Syria's antiquities chief called on the World to save its ancient monuments.
 
Syrian state television said pro-government fighters withdrew from Palmyra in large numbers.
 
In a newsflash it said most of the city's civilian population had been evacuated before the withdrawal. ISIS fighters were trying to enter Palmyra's historical sites and establish themselves there, it said.
 
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the group had seized almost all of the city.