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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
HTS busts Jaysh Al-Islam sleeper cell in East Ghouta region
2018-01-20
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Salafist tough guys once again clashed inside the East Ghouta region after Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
launched a surprise attack on 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 positions.

According to opposition media, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham uncovered a Jaish al-Islam sleeper cell within the territory they control in the East Ghouta, prompting them to attack the latter and capture their fighters.

HTS stated that the captured fighters confessed that they were members of Jaish al-Islam and that they were hired to target the commanders of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham with IEDs in exchange for cash.

Jaish al-Islam and HTS strongly oppose one another, despite the fact they are both part of the rebel forces in Syria.

Posted by:Fred

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