Syria

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Al Nusrah Front, and Islamic groups clashed with regime forces on the Damascus-Homs highway in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces battled Al Nusrah and Islamic battalions on the outskirts of Maaloula. ISIS has kidnapped 51 Kurdish civilians in and around Minbej city in Aleppo, and has seized Kurdish shops. Gunmen assassinated a rebel leader in the Yarmouk camp in Damascus. Suspected ISIS gunmen stopped a journalist’s car at a checkpoint in Idlib and shot into the car; the journalist’s fate is unknown. Two Norwegian sisters of Somali origin who traveled to Syria for jihad are being held in Syria, and one has been injured.

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