DAMASCUS: A total of 6,300 rebel fighters have joined the so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group last month alone, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday.

The Observatory said 6,300 fighters had joined the training camps of that al-Qaida breakaway group in Syria's northern provinces of al-Raqqa and Aleppo.

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