Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters began an attack on the Islamic State (IS)-held village of Dabiq in northwestern Syria on Saturday, a rebel commander involved in the campaign and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Dabiq is symbolically important to the jihadist group because it is the site of an apocalyptic Islamic prophesy, and IS has stationed around 1,200 of its fighters there said the Observatory, a Britain-based war monitor.