Two Al Nusrah Front suicide bombings in Hama killed at least 30 soldiers, and an Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham suicide bombing in Damascus killed 32 people, reportedly soldiers, when two buildings collapsed. Regime forces clashed with Islamic battalions in Deraa, as well as in Idlib, in Aleppo, and in Homs. An American jihadist accused Al Nusrah of conspiring against ISIS. Al Nusrah claimed a suicide bombing in Hama on Feb. 8. ISIS issued a video featuring its slain former leader, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The UN expressed “shock” over reports that Islamist rebels massacred civilians in Hama on Feb. 9. Syria’s ambassador to Russia said the regime’s most dangerous stocks of chemical weapons will be out of the country by March 1. No progress was made in Geneva II second-round talks.
