Regime and Hezbollah fighters continued to try to wrest the strategic town of Yabroud from rebel forces, including the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces in Hama; in Aleppo, where they are besieging the central prison; and in Deir Izzour. The ISIS fired rockets at the regime’s 17th division in Raqqah, and clashed with the Islamic Front and the Jabhat Al-Arkrad in Aleppo. The head of the Syrian Orthodox Church said some of the comments of the recently freed nuns were made under duress. Al Nusrah issued statements claiming 11 operations in Homs, including a suicide bombing, in January and February; and a joint attack with the Liwa’ al-Ummah in Khan Sheikhun in Idlib.
