"Terrorists who call themselves 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...(Army of Islam) this morning fired a mortar round into the residential district of Barzeh (north of Damascus), killing one civilian and wounding nine people," it said, citing police.
Rebels battling Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
's regime often shell the capital from the suburb of Eastern Ghouta.
SANA also said that in second city Aleppo in the north, "rockets fired by forces of Evil hit a residential district, killing three girls and wounding another two."
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said the dead were "sisters aged between 16 and 19."
The Observatory, which has an extensive network of informants inside Syria, also said several people were maimed by rocket fire on the regime-controlled Aleppo neighborhood of Hamdaniyeh.
Syria's former economic powerhouse has been ravaged by war since 2012. It is split between the government-held west and hard boy-controlled east.
Aleppo province itself is almost entirely under the control of Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate, 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, jihadist forces allied to it and 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
jihadist group.
Elsewhere, SANA said, "forces of Evil targeted the town of Suqaylabiyah (northwest of the central city of Hama) with rockets, causing the death of two civilians and wounding eight, including a child."
The Observatory reported "25 maimed" in the Christian-majority region.