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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Over 20 Islamist rebels killed as suicide bombers blast Ahrar Al-Sham base in rural Idlib
2017-05-22
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Sunday morning, two jacket wallahs infiltrated an area controlled by Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
in eastern Idlib and detonated tons of explosives inside a military base at Tall al-Toukan.

The suicide bombers carried with them powerful homemade bombs concealed in bags and subsequently entered a camp where some 200 Ahrar al-Sham recruits were undergoing training. At least 20 fighters were killed in the kabooms and dozens more maimed.

As of yet, no faction has taken responsibility for the suicide kabooms. Nevertheless, rebel factions blamed the attack on 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....
Hundreds of ISIS sleeper cells are still active inside Idlib province while the Mukhabarat (Syrian intelligence) also conducts operations behind enemy lines. Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
sporadic infighting has also resulted in countless liquidations and car kabooms.
Iraqi News adds:
The source said that two jacket wallahs, wearing boom belts, blew up themselves, this morning, in the headquarters of ’Lions of Islam Brigade’, which belongs to Ahrar al-Sham Movement, in the eastern countryside of Saraqib City.

The suicide kaboom resulted in the killing of at least four persons, including the movement’s resources official Mahrous al-Khatib, in addition to wounding many others.

The source also revealed that the deaths are expected to increase due to the severity of the casualties’ injuries that were transferred to Saraqib Hospital.

Ahrar al-Sham Movement is widely deployed in Idlib Province, northern countryside of Hama, northern and western countryside of Aleppo, countryside of Damascus and Daraa.
Update from Iraqi News as of 7:33 p.m. local time:
The corpse count of the suicide kaboom that hit the headquarters of Ahrar al-Sham, east of Idlib, today, rose to 16 dead and more than 40 maimed, Qasioun News Agency reported on Sunday.

Earlier today, a jacket wallah blew up himself in the headquarters of Ahrar al-Sham, east of Idlib, followed by a booby-trapped cycle of violence kaboom at the headquarters’ entrance.

Local source pointed out that the deaths are expected to increase due to the severity of the casualties’ injuries that were transferred to Saraqib and Bab al-Hawa Hospitals.
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