Regime forces launched an assault in Deir al-Zor, trying to regain territory seized by a coalition headed by the Al Nusrah Front and the Qatar-backed Ahfad al-Rasul Brigade. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and from the Al Nusrah Front detained over 30 Syrian Kurdish civilians last night in Aleppo province; activists report the civilians are being tortured. ISIL, the Al Nusrah Front, and allied rebel battalions clashed with Kurdish YPG forces in Hasakah. The Al Nusrah Front claimed it killed 43 Syrian troops in a suicide truck bombing in Hama on Aug. 10.
