A prominent jihadist forum said it supports the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and urged the Al Nusrah Front to resolve differences with the group. Information Minister al Zoubi said 25 persons, not 150, were released in exchange for the nuns freed yesterday; other sources said 141 women and a "small" number of men were freed. In Aleppo, ISIS executed 12 rebels and at least 10 other people, and clashed with the Jabhat Al Akrad brigade and the Islamic Front near Ein Al-Arab city. In Hasakah, three ISIS suicide bombers, one of whom was female, detonated in a hotel in Qamishli, and ISIS and the Al Nusrah Front exchanged prisoners. In Reef Dimashq, Al Nusrah, ISIS, and the Islamic Front continued to battle regime forces around Yabroud. Al Nusrah released video of its Abu Ghadiya training camp and sniper attacks in Homs and Deraa. State media said terrorists from the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Dagestan were killed in various operations, and that a leader of the al Mujahideen Battalion was killed in Deraa.
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