Four rebel battalions in Idlib– al-Ansar, al-Naser al-Qadem, al-Naser, and al-Muntaser Billah — split from the Ahfad al-Rasoul brigade and declared they would proceed independently with “armed jihadist struggle” against the Assad regime. A suicide bomber detonated in central Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham confiscated a coal-laden truck and an excavator … Continue reading Syria