article_snippet.sent: ISIS currently controls a swath of land slightly larger than the UK, from Aleppo to central Iraq.
article_snippet.sent: The video comes in the wake of a major blow for ISIS, with Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit falling into the hands of the Iraqi government.
article_snippet.sent: Tikrit is 80 miles north of Baghdad on the main highway to Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.
article_snippet.sent: Meanwhile ISIS has taken control of 90 per cent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus - only a few kilometres from Bashar al-Assad's stronghold.
article_snippet.sent: A human rights monitoring group claimed that the terror organisation almost has full control of the camp which has a population of 18,000 civilians.
article_snippet.sent: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights warned that the population of the camp are under threat of death from Isis, hunger and disease.