...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....
of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) today, striking the latter near the Jaroud Jarajeer border-crossing into Leb.
According to a military source, the Syrian Armed Forces and Hezbollah carried out the assault near the border village of Ma'ber Abu Hadeej in the Qalamoun Mountains.
This surprise attack by the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah resulted in the death of a number of terrorists, along with the destruction of their armored vehicle.
The ISIS forces of Evil that were attempting to enter Syria today were likely heading towards the eastern slopes of the Qalamoun Mountains, where their comrades are currently engaged in a fierce battle against 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....