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| ِAl-Qaeda affiliate nearly gone from southern Syria, opposition says | |||||
| 2015-05-26 | |||||
| [IsraelTimes] Thousands of local fighters have recently left al-Nusra Front, according to Free Syrian Army front man While 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... forces have been gaining control of territory in northern and central Syria, the US terror-listed group al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front has all but disappeared from the southern provinces of the country, an opposition front man said Monday. According to the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... front man, who covers the Daraa province in southern Syria from a base in Amman, Jordan, the number of Nusra fighters in the provinces of Quneitra and Daraa, adjacent to the Israeli and Jordanian borders, has diminished in recent weeks from 3,000 to no more than 700 fighters. "A large number of them defected and joined other opposition factions," the front man told The Times of Israel in a Skype conversation from Amman. "There were differences in religious orientation, since they [Al-Nusra] are Death Eaters, and we are moderate Sunni Moslems."
Moderate oppositionists active along the border with Israel have tried to convince Nusra fighters to leave the area and advance toward Damascus. They have also launched an educational and religious campaign to draw local fighters away from Death Eater ideologies.
The claim by the front man could not be immediately verified by The Times of Israel. Last month, the Free Syrian Army joined forces with al-Nusra in combating Jaish al-Jihad, a group affiliated with the Islamic State and led by Abu Musab al-Fanousi, in the town of Qahtaniya, located some 300 meters from the border with Israel. The front man said the Free Syrian Army and al-Nusra have regained control of the town, pushing Jaish al-Jihad fighters 40 kilometers (25 miles) south to the town of Jamlah, where the IS-affiliated group Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade is based. According to the front man, the jihadist group maintains a presence in the nearby villages of ash-Shajarah, Bakkar, and Ein Dhakar in the southern Golan Heights, along the Israeli border.
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