President Assad insisted that Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal is secure. A suicide car bomb blew up at a regime checkpoint in Hama. Regime aircraft attacked an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant camp in Deir Izzor. ISIL fighters seized radiological imaging equipment in Aleppo city. Kurdish YPG fighters killed an Al Nusrah Front leader in Idlib. ISIL released a Christian officer after he “declared his Islam” in Raqqah. YPG forces clashed with Al Nusrah, ISIL, and rebel forces in Hasakah. The leader of Hezbollah denied the Syrian National Coalition’s claim that Hezbollah has received chemical weapons from Syria.
