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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Fresh violence hit Aleppo amid Qaeda progress
2015-06-06
[ARA] Al-Nusra Front (Syria's branch of al-Qaeda) has been able to advance in the northern countryside of Aleppo, regaining a number of villages that were previously held by 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....
group (IS/ISIS), local sources reported on Thursday.

Media sources in the countryside of Aleppo told ARA News that 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 was able, after fierce battles with ISIS, to control the towns of Ghazal and Ball in the northern countryside of Aleppo, as well as capturing some 20 faceless myrmidons during the recent battles.

In the meantime, the Syrian regime warplanes continue raids on the towns and districts of Aleppo province.

At least six non-combatants were killed in the the town of Deir Jamal which due to regime-led Arclight airstrikes on Thursday.

Eight others were killed when pro-Assad warplanes dropped two barrel bombs on the town of Hayan in Aleppo countryside.

Speaking to ARA News in Aleppo, media activist Mustafa al-Halab said that the Syrian regime committed what a "massacre" in the neighborhood of the al-Qubba in the city, after dropping four barrel bombs, which caused the death of 16 people and the injury of dozen others.
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