(better known by its former name, Jabhat al-Nusra...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
) conducted a car kaboom against Syrian Army positions in the now government-controlled East Ghouta district of Jisreen.
At the present time little information is available on the result of the attack, specifically whether or not it was successful and, if so, how many losses were endured to the ranks of Syrian government forces.
At face value, the kaboom appears to have taken out an entire residential building block.
Some sources state that the car kaboom was followed up with a general storming of Syrian Army positions aimed at retaking the district of Jisreen, but that the assault was ultimately repelled by Elite Republican Guard units.
Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham is the second biggest group after ISIS to conduct suicide car kabooms on enemy forces ‐ even so, it ranks second place by a very large margin, perhaps to a factor of about 10.
Syria’s Assad shows up in East Ghouta frontlines
[ALMASDARNEWS] Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
paid a daring and unexpected visit to one of the recently-liberated Eastern Ghouta towns.
Photos published by the Syrian Presidency shows Assad amid a group of the soldiers who are battling against Islamist bully boyz in the area.
Nearly a month ago, the government forces launched an onslaught against the murderous Moslem of East Ghouta. Ever since, up to 80% of the longtime rebel-held enclave.
Syrian Army issues final warning for jihadists as it readies to storm key district in east Damascus
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Ministry of Defence has issued a final warning to jihadist fighters of Moslem Brüderbund affiliate militia Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
holding out in the besieged district of Harasta.
Syrian military authorities are pressuring Ahrar al-Sham rebels to keep good on their semi-official promise to either completely evacuate Harasta for northwest Syria or to reconcile with the government in the coming days.
According to al-Masdar News journalist Ibrahim Joudeh, the Syrian Army is looking for an official acknowledgement from the holy warrior group’s leaders in the district that they will in fact abide by the preliminary evacuation-reconciliation deal.
The Syrian Army has threatened to storm Harasta and drive out jihadist faceless myrmidons at gunpoint if they lax on the set arrangement.