ISIL Kills Armed Group’s Ringleader in Northwestern Syria

Source : FARS News Agency

TEHRAN (FNA)- Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists assassinated the ringleader of a rival militant group, Jund Al-Sham in Reef (countryside of) Idlib in Northwestern Syria.The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed Abu Suleiman, commander of the Jund Al-Sham rebel group. Abdul Samad Issa nicknamed Abu Suleiman Al-Hamavi was a ringleader of armed groups in Aleppo and Idlib cities.Abu Suleiman was stationed in the town of Harem in Reef Idlib, where armed rebels massacred civilians for supporting President Bashar Al-Assad’s government.In a similar incident, the Al-Qaeda-linked ISIL terrorists killed the commander of another armed group affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in the countryside of Aleppo in Northwestern Syria on Sunday.Hesam Al-Basha, ringleader of the Martyrs of Idlib Battalion was killed in Ma’ar Tamsarin town by ISIL and transferred to Hazano, an important ISIL camp in Idlib countryside.Last week, the Al-Qaeda terrorists executed members of two rival armed rebel groups, including a ringleader, in the town of Haritan in countryside of Aleppo.The Al-Nusra Front executed commander of the so-called Namr Battalion Abu Al-Khabar, his son called Senan, and four members of another armed rebel group, Andan Brigades, in Haritan.After more than two years of fighting side-by-side and leading one of the bloodiest conflicts in the recent history of Middle-East, FSA and al-Qaeda affiliated groups have been making some moves against each other following reports of West’s alleged concerns over sending more arms to Syria and possibility of them falling into the hands of the terrorists.Militants in Syria have been committing numerous war crimes against people and Syrian army soldiers throughout the country during their bloody war.The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, when sporadic pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of western and regional states.The unrest, which took in terrorist groups from across Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa, has transpired as one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists.Washington has remained indifferent to warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups.

Mother Agnes Warned against Systematic Expulsion of Christians from Syria

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Team Leader of  the Catholic Information Center Mother Agnes Mary al-Saleeb stressed  that  nuns of  Mar Takla monastery who were abducted by armed terrorist gangs from  Maloula are kidnapped , rather than being  held. In  a radio interview yesterday , mother Agnes said that , "The  broadcast video, which had shown the nuns   constituted in  itself a media scandal, adding that there is always a tendentious TV channels that stand beside  such operations." She added:  "This is against the profession  and human rights.  I am surprised  that no one  raised the voice to ask a media as such  to refrain from inciting crime and kidnapping," noting that the nuns were forced to speak in this way and  that the biggest proof on  that they are forced is the  disappearance of the Cross from  their chests . " Mother Agnes indicated that there is a systematic  expulsion of  Christians in Syria from their own country and hometown,  because there are villages that were not taking a position concerning  the war of aggression against Syria and were  invaded,  revealing that the issue  has become global and there is a systematic program and a will hidden by a global  external cover to erase the traces of ancient civilizations in the region for  evil motives.. One  armed terrorist group attacked earlier this month the monastery of Mar Takla  in Maloula of Rural Damascus and detained the head of the monastery Lagia Sayyaf and several  nuns who work in the convent and its affiliated orphanage,   and  carried out acts of killing and destruction in the city. The Vatican Pope Francis made an appeal for the release of the nuns and all the people who were kidnapped in Syria.

Syrian Army Kills Saudi Colonel, Eliminates Terrorists across Country

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The Syrian Army continued to smash terrorist groups' dens and gatherings in intensified operations carried out across the country during which large number of terrorists were eliminated, including group's leaders and foreigners.In Damascus Countryside, an army unit destroyed an armed terrorist group's den that contained an amount of weapons and ammunition in Alieh farms in Douma area.A number of the terrorists, some of them are of Arab nationalities, were killed in the operation, including Sami Abdullah Ahmad from Somalia.Another army unit ambushed members of an armed terrorist group in the eastern mountains in al-Zabadani city, killing many of them.Units of the armed forces killed a number of terrorists, injured others in the village of al-Wadi in Rabi'a, in Lattakia countryside and destroyed terrorists' cars loaded with rockets, RPG launchers, machineguns.Another army unit killed 12 terrorists and injured others in the village of Zahiyeh.18 terrorists were eliminated, others were injured and a car loaded with launchers, 3 cars equipped with heavy machineguns were also destroyed in al-Aliya village.Units of the armed forces killed and injured a number of terrorists in the villages of Tirtiyah and Eyen al-Samour.46 terrorists, among them a Saudi connection colonel named Abu Daifallah al-Saudi and a French and two British terrorists, were killed.A military source said that all members of armed terrorist groups who were looting and attacking the citizens in al-Dbait street, the vegetables souk in al-Ashrafiyeh neighborhood, Salah-Eddin and Bustan al-Kasser neighborhoods and the old city of Aleppo, were eliminated and injured.An army unit confronted an armed terrorist groups' attempt to attack al-Kindi Hospital and foiled terrorists' attempts to detonate two cars bomb in the area surrounding the hospital, killing and injuring scores of them. 

Free Syrian Army militant General Salim Idris to joining army to fight al-Qaeda

Source : Ahlul Bayt News Agency

Syrian ringleader of the anti-government militants General Salim Idris has declared that he is prepared to join government troops in the future to drive out al-Qaeda-linked extremists.The commander of the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) warned that in particular ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham), with thousands of foreign terrorists in its ranks, was “very dangerous for the future of Syria” and needs to be confronted before it becomes even more powerful.Speaking in Istanbul, General Idris, a former officer in Syria's army, said he and his associates were dropping the precondition that President Bashar al-Assad must leave power before the Geneva meeting takes place. Instead they would be satisfied if his departure were to take place “at the end of the negotiation process” when General Idris will join forces with the remainder of the government to mount an offensive against the terrorists.Western security agencies now believe that Syria poses the most potent threat of terrorism in Europe and the US from where hundreds of extremists have gone to join the terrorism. Britain’s intelligence agency (MI5) and Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorist branch recently tackled the first case of men sent from there specifically to carry out attacks in London.One senior Western intelligence official stressed that the Syrian government’s forces must be preserved for the battles ahead against the terrorists and the need to avoid the mistakes made in Iraq and Libya, where the army and police were disbanded with the fall of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, allowing terrorist groups to rise in a security vacuum.The official held that talks between the Syrian government and militants set to take place in Geneva in January could be the beginning of the formation of an anti-al-Qaeda front in Syria, along with a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.The opposition would like to see evidence of good faith from the government, which would include allowing supplies to get through to communities trapped by the fighting.General Idris complained his men were having to fight a war on two fronts: they have, he claimed, fought al-Qaeda at 24 different locations in the last six months while at the same time facing poundings from government’s warplanes and artillery.

Army Kills 22 Militants in Northern Syria

TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian army continued its mop-up operations in Reef (countryside of) Ariha in Northern Syria on Wednesday, and killed tens of militants.The army conducted operations in Ma’ar Belit town in the countryside of Ariha and killed 22 armed rebels. Ma’ar Belit is located on Idlib-Saqlin road.The Syrian army also pounded the positions of the militants in the Western parts of Idlib, and killed 22 armed rebels in the area.The government forces repelled another group of armed rebels in heavy clashes in reef Ariha and prevented them from taking position in Al-Fanar Restaurant in Al-Arbaeen mountainous region.The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, when sporadic pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of western and regional states.The unrest, which took in terrorist groups from across Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa, has transpired as one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists.Washington has remained indifferent to warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups.

European countries in contact with Damascus on Western fighters

English.news.cn (Xinhua) -- Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said Tuesday that some European countries are in contact with Damascus regarding the growing number of Western radicals fighting alongside the rebels in the war-torn country.Declining to name the countries and the contact methods, al- Zoubi told pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV that these countries fear that the terrorism in Syria will have repercussion on their own region, given that many fighters in Syria are foreigners, including Europeans, who may return to their original countries even more radicalized.His remarks came after Bashar Ja'afari, Syria's ambassador to the UN, revealed on Tuesday that the Syrian troops had captured around 300 Saudi fighters.Earlier in the day, the local al-Watan daily said that the Syrian troops killed tens of Afghani fighters in the north.Yet, the Western countries fear the return of their nationals, who may have fought alongside the al-Qaida-linked groups.Some U.S. security officials recently warned that some American fighters in Syria may unleash terrorist attacks on the U.S. soil after they have come back."We know that American citizens as well as Canadian and European nationals have taken up arms in Syria, Yemen and in Somalia. The threat that these individuals could return home to carry out attacks is real and troubling," U.S. Senator Thomas Carper said recently.Some Western media reports placed the numbers of Western jihadists, who carry passports of theUnited States and Europe in Syria, at more than 1,000.

Jaafari: Saudi Releases Criminals from Jails, Sends Them to Syria

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Syrian permanent envoy to the United Nations, Bashar al-Jaafari, accused the Saudi Arabia of releasing the criminals from its prisons in a bid to send them to Syria for the so-called “Jihad”.At a press statement after a Security Council session in New York, Jaafari said that Saudi intelligence knows all Saudis who traveled to fight in Syria. He added that a large number of them have been sentenced to death or to life imprisonment and they were released in return for going to "jihad" in Syria and kill the Syrians."The Saudi authorities release those criminals, the majority of them are affiliated to extremist, terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, to send them to Syria through hidden agreements through which they are given amnesty in return for their travelling to Syria to kill the Syrians,” the Syrian envoy told reporters.He added that those terrorists enter Syria through borders with Jordan, Lebanon while the others come through Turkey with facilitations by the Turkish, Qatari intelligence."At the same time when the Security Council recognizes that Nusra Front is a terrorist organization and the other groups are terrorists, some international officials name them as opposition," Jaafari said.On the number of victims in Syria, the official news agency, SANA, quoted the Syrian envoy as saying: "We are regretful over the death of any Syrian citizen, wondering "Do you inform me about the number of soldiers and their average within the number of the victims, about the number of policemen, women or those who died because of the suicide explosions… the answer would be that we should take into consideration that all the victims are Syrians, and a lot of them were killed at the hands of the armed terrorist groups which are active in Syria by the instigation of external sides.