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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS, rebel forces clash in southern Syria
2017-04-14
[ALMASDARNEWS] A jihadi group affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has thwarted an attempt by rebel force to advance in the northwestern countryside of Daraa.

Khalid Ibn al-Waleed Army ‐ an ultraconservative group linked to ISIS ‐ claimed that 7 rebels were killed, 9 others injured in the failed offensive on the villages of Jillen, Adwan and al-Jumou’ hilltop.

Earlier on Sunday, ISIS launched a surprise attack on the Tanaf Border Crossing with Iraq using a VBIED which have killed at least 3 FSA fighters in the Crossing’s outpost.

According to unconfirmed news, the US and Jordanian troops have intervened to repel the attack.
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