Selim Idriss, the head of the Free Syrian Army's Supreme Military Council, pledged cooperation with the newly formed Islamic Front coalition. Kurdish YPG forces took control of three villages in Hasakah after clashes with the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, and rebel battalions. The Fajer al-Sham Islamic battalion, Ahrar al-Sham Islamic battalion, and the ISIS clashed with regime forces in Aleppo. Eleven "Islamic fighters" were killed while fighting regime and Hezbollah forces in Reef Dimashq. Regime forces recaptured Deir Atiyeh after the ISIS withdrew. State media claimed that terrorists murdered five doctors, five nurses, and two ambulance drivers in Deir Atiyeh. The nephew of a Lebanese Hezbollah minister was killed fighting in Syria. A mortar attack on the Russian Embassy in Damascus killed a man and wounded nine embassy guards.
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