(Daily Beast) Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan - A mere 50 to 200 ISIS fighters took over Palmyra from Assad's forces. ISIS' swift return was facilitated through bribery. The jihadists evidently paid off a corrupt leader of the National Defense Forces, an Iranian-built proxy militia, who looked the other way as the ISIS attack began. Meanwhile, all of Russia's military forces had withdrawn from the Syrian city a few days earlier.
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