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Islam Army fighters expel ISIS from hill in eastern Qalamoun
2015-06-10
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Jaysh al-Islam announced on Tuesday an offensive on ISIS in the eastern Qalamoun region, seeking to open a supply route that links to the Syrian north, according to statement posted online.

Activists said that fighters of 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...
, or Islam Army, have seized control of al-Afaei mountain that located near the Syrian desert after expelling ISIS fighters who control most of Badiyat al-Sham territory.

Islam Army said its elite fighters, who operate under the 5th Brigade, are carrying out the battle against radical Islamist group.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
Southern Front fighters captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, rebels and a monitoring group said, a setback for Bashir al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere, Rooters reported.

"We announce the liberation of Liwa 52," Issam al-Rayyes, front man for the "Southern Front" alliance of rebel groups, told Rooters. Liwa 52, or the 52nd Brigade, is one of the biggest Syrian army bases in the area.

The southern region near the border with Jordan and Israel is one of the areas where bully boyz have inflicted significant defeats on Assad in the last three months, notably by capturing the Nasib border crossing with Jordan on April 1.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Hijole... for about five surreal seconds I saw that graphic as a Saints logo. Short my brain.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-06-10 19:29  

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