...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....
(ISIS) launched a big assault inside the city of Hajar al-Aswad, Friday, targeting 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 last positions in the area.
According to the terrorist group’s official media wing, their forces managed to capture most of al-Zeen Street after a fierce battle with Jaish al-Islam on early Friday.
The terrorist group’s official media wing released several images from the battle, including several gruesome photos that showed Jaish al-Islam fighters decapitated and hanging from a cage.
ISIS has recently increased their military activity in southern Damascus after several month of inactivity inside Hajar al-Aswad, Tadamon, and Yarmouk Camp.