The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Latakia, Aleppo, Hama, Reef Dimashq, and Deir Izzour, where they also clashed with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham. In Deraa, the Al Nusrah emir in Bosra Al Sham, Ali al-Nuaimi, was assassinated along with his wife in a bombing. Rebels from the Tabarak al-Rahman brigade posted a video claiming to have captured a presidential candidate on the Damascus-Deraa road. In Idlib, a car detonated outside a hospital emergency room, and yesterday the Islamic Front bombed a regime checkpoint by planting IEDs in a tunnel under it. Salih Muslim, a top Kurdish YPG official, alleged that elements within the Turkish state collaborate with ISIS’ Chechen faction.
