The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and Islamic battalions clashed with regime forces in Reef Dimashq. ISIS, Al Nusrah, and rebel battalions attacked military residential facilities in Aleppo. ISIS and Al Nusah also attacked Kurdish YPG checkpoints in Aleppo. Al Nusrah, Ahrar al Sham, Jaish al Islam issued a statement calling for ISIS to resolve a dispute in sharia court with them over the Koniko gas facility in Deir Izzour. A spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition estimated that the newly formed Islamic Front controls up to 60 percent of the Syrian rebels; the head of the Free Syrian Army’s Supreme Military Council has pledged cooperation with the Islamic Front. An FSA spokesman called the Islamic Front fighters “brothers and jihadists who have made considerable sacrifices for the revolution.”
