A senior commander of Syrian opposition group Jaysh al-Islam, Zahran Alloush, has been killed in an airstrike following a meeting in Damascus, sources in Eastern Ghouta told Anadolu Agency Friday.
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The Local Coordination Committees earlier said that Allouch was killed along with his deputy and chief spokesman in an airstrike believed to be Russian in Otaya.
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Jaysh al-Islam, also called Army of Islam, controls parts of the Syrian capital Damascus’s suburbs. State television said the body of the leader of the Jaysh al Islam rebel group and those of several of his aides were buried in rubble.
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Founder Zahroun Alloush was among those killed when rockets hit a meeting place, rebels and activists said.
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are backed by Russian Federation, whose forces have completed 5,240 sorties since joining the conflict in September.
Rebels said he was killed by Russian missiles that hit Eastern Ghouta, a swathe of territory that has been besieged for years. The group is part of the Islamic Front.
Alloush’s death “stands as one of the most significant opposition losses” of Syria’s almost five-year uprising, analyst Charles Lister said on Twitter.
Critics accused him of sectarian politics and brutal tactics similar to that of the Islamic State group.
Hezbollah’s Manar TV said 18 buses had arrived to start taking them and 1,500 family members to areas under the control of IS and other rebel groups. But there have also been reports that while on regional visits to countries hostile to Assad’s government including Turkey and Saudi Arabia, Alloush failed to win the support he wanted for his group. Men and women were put in large metal cages on pick-up trucks that drove around Damascus suburbs.
Most of the Syrian militants, like Allouch, are Sunni Muslims and see themselves as oppressed by Alawites.
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