Fighting continued throughout Syria despite the Eid al-Adha holiday. Rebel bombs targeted churches in Damascus suburbs, as well as areas of central Damascus. Regime aircraft bombed rebel-held areas south and east of Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with the rebel Northern Storm brigade at the Bab Salam post at the Turkish border; the two groups clashed last month in Azaz, another border town. ISIS released a video showing Kazakh jihadists and a suicide bombing in the Nabak area of Damascus. An opposition activist claimed last week that a Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS in July is alive. OPCW experts have visited eight of 20 chemical weapons sites, but so far none of the weapons have been destroyed.
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