...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...announced tonight that they have reached a preliminary agreement with the Russian Reconciliation Center that would allow for the latter to transport their critical maimed fighters to northern Syria.
Based on the details of the agreement, Jaish al-Islam will allow Russia to transport their maimed fighters to Idlib in exchange for an extended ceasefire inside the town of Douma.
According to a military source in Damascus, a full agreement is expected to be announced in the next 48 hours.
The source added that Jaish al-Islam is close to accepting all of the Syrian military’s terms, including their departure from Douma to northern Syria.