Al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri issued a statement calling Muslims to fight for the establishment of a jihadi Islamic state in Syria, in order to bring back the Caliphate and "liberate" Jerusalem; he warned against dealing with secularists and American agents, and urged jihadists to rise above "organizational affiliations and partisan prejudices." He issued a similar call in June. After three days of clashes between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and the Free Syrian Army's Abail brigade in Aleppo, ISIL has taken over several neighborhoods; some 50 fighters have been killed. Regime forces aided by NDF, Hezbollah, and Shia militias clashed with rebels in Reef Dimashq. Rebel mortars landed near the Agriculture Ministry and a school in central Damascus, killing a child. A strategist for the Syrian National Coalition said the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the OPCW was premature.
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