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Islam Army kills 28 regime troops in Eastern Ghouta
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Powerful Islam Army group killed at least 28 regime troops in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Tuesday, the group's social media pages said on Tuesday, posting photos for the deaths.Jaish al-Islam  ...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...has launched two attacks on regime strongholds in Marj al-Sultan town, a battleground town that witnessed fierce fighting in the recent months. Photos and footage posted by Islam army and have been circulated by activists showed bodies of the regime soldiers and allied militiamen. Posted by: Fred 2016-08-10 |
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