Abu Abdullah al Libi, a Libyan local commander in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was killed along with 12 ISIL fighters in a clash with a rebel group in Idlib; the Free Syrian Army denied culpability for his death. ISIL fighters attacked Al Nusrah Front headquarters in Hasaka yesterday and stole weapons and oil equipment; the clash will supposedly be mediated by a sharia council. ISIL and Nusrah have been fighting alongside each other against Kurdish YPG fighters in Hasakah and Raqqah. YPG fighters punctured a military tank belonging to ISIL and Nusrah in Hasakah. YPG fighters clashed with ISIL in Aleppo. An ISIL suicide bomber detonated in a car on the Homs-Damascus road, in the first announced ISIL operation in Reef Dimashq. A senior US official said Gulf backers have raised “hundreds of millions” of dollars for the Syrian opposition and that the amount going to Islamists is deliberately obscured.
