Battalions of the Tajamo’ Alwiyat wa Shuhada’ Souriya, Haraket Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiya, Suqour al-Sham, and Al Nusrah Front said they will launch a series of attacks on checkpoints in the Ariha area of Idlib province. “Persons close to” the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed that a missing Catholic priest is still alive, but offered no proof. The UN demanded that its investigative team in Syria be granted free access to all sites where chemical weapons are said to have been used.
