Tag Archives: Syria

Regime forces clashed in Aleppo with fighters from the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jeish Mohammad, Nour al-Deen al-Zanki, and Ahrar al-Sham. ISIL fighters clashed with the A’seft al-Shamal rebel brigade in Azaz, and with Kurdish YPG fighters elsewhere in Aleppo. ISIL seized two checkpoints and a base from […]

Sources say the recent formation of the Army of Islam, including some 50 Islamist rebel groups but not the al Qaeda-affiliated Al Nusrah Front and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, has come at the urging of Saudi Arabia. ISIL, whose ranks are swelling with non-Syrians, is seeking to consolidate control in the north. […]

Foreign Minister Mouallem told the UN that Syrian “terrorists” are being supplied with chemical weapons, and claimed there are no moderate militants in Syria, where jihadists from 83 countries are allegedly fighting. He likened the terrorism suffered by Syria to the 9/11 attacks. Syria said it would not sit at peace talks with the Syrian […]

Some 43 Islamist groups joined together to form the Army of Islam (Jaysh al Islam) under the command of Sheikh Mohammed Zahran. Rebel forces are now said to control all of the Syrian border crossings into Iraq, as well as border crossings into Turkey and Jordan. Islamist brigades, including the Al Nusrah Front and Ahrar […]

Syrian rebels, including al Qaeda-linked fighters, captured a military post near the Jordan border. The Free Syrian Army reported heavy regime shelling yesterday along the border, where some 69,000 refugees are said to be trapped. Western officials said US and Israeli intelligence agencies think that Syria’s chemical arms declaration may be incomplete, as Syria named […]

Syria’s ambassador to the UN said the Security Council resolution on Syrian chemical weapons addresses most of Damascus’ concerns, and said Syria plans to attend a November peace conference in Geneva. OPCW experts will begin inspecting Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Oct. 1. UN inspectors in Syria are investigating three alleged chemical attacks after the […]

A senior member of the Syrian National Coalition condemned as inappropriate the announcement that 10 rebel groups and the Al Nusrah Front have joined together, repudiated the SNC, and called for sharia. Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant attacked and desecrated two churches in Raqqah, and flew the ISIL flag atop […]