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Jaysh Al-Islam spokesman resigns from post
[ALMASDARNEWS] 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...’s (Army of Islam) official front man, Islam ’Alloush, has announced his resignation from the Islamist group on Friday. While no reason was given by ’Alloush, he did state that Jaish al-Islam’s leadership has accepted his resignation. The former front man of Jaish al-Islam added that he will be known by his real name, Majdi Noumeh, from this day forward. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-03 |
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