Leading the charge was the so-called 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....
(ISIS), who launched several attacks against the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
jihadist faction at Haifa Street on Thursday.The Islamic State managed to advance along Haifa Street, despite heavy resistance from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and their jihadist allies in the Yarmouk Camp District.
ISIS has recently launched large attacks in several areas in the southern suburbs of Damascus, mostly targeting the Yarmouk Camp and Hajar al-Aswad.