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Islamist group seizes Damascus suburb from rivals
[Ynet] Islamist fighters seized a suburb east of Damascus on Sunday after driving out a smaller rival Death Eater group in deadly festivities, a monitoring group said, the latest example of rebel infighting in Syria's nearly four-year conflict.Fighters from the Army of Islam clashed with members of the Army of the Nation group in Douma, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Both groups include Sunni Moslem fighters opposed to  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... 's government, and the fighting is seen as more of a pie fight than a conflict over ideology. The Observatory, which gathers information from a network of sources in Syria, said several fighters were killed, without giving details. It added that the Army of Islam had detained many of its rival combatants. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-01-05 |
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