Syria Needs Help Too

Shaun Keating News Feather Story 2014, Syria

ISIS takes key military air base in Syria

After ISIS seizes strategic airbase, Syria asks for help.

  1. Syria has been in a civil war since 2011.
  2. ISIS has grown rapidly in the chaos.
  3. ISIS has conquered large regions of northern Syria and Iraq.
  4. On Monday, ISIS took over an important military air base.
  5. Syria moved its military planes before ISIS took over.
  6. Syria says it is now ready for support from the U.N. and U.S.
  7. ISIS also controls oil fields, large cities, and lots of weapons.