Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as several Islamic rebel factions gathered at the venue, killing 17 militants, opposition activists said Sunday.
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The assassination of a senior Syrian rebel commander who led one of the most powerful groups fighting President Bashar Assad’s forces dealt a significant setback to the opposition. “Continuing developments on the ground should not be allowed to derail [the talks]”, a United Nations official said.
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Powerful Syrian rebel chief Zahran Alloush was killed in a regime air strike east of Damascus on Friday, dealing blows to both the almost five-year uprising and a fragile peace process.
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Anas al-Abdeh, a senior member of the main Western- backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, said the assassination “makes a mockery of all talk of a political settlement” and undermines the “negotiations before they begin”.
The Army of Islam said it has appointed Essam al-Buwaydhani, a field commander known as Abu Hammam, as the new leader of the group. At least 12 Jaish al-Islam members and seven from the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham group were killed.
Damascus, SANA- Military spokesman of the Syrian Arab Army said that the numbers of terrorists who are fleeing towards the Turkish borders had doubled, noting that differences among terrorists’ leaders grew after the success which was achieved by the Syrian army in cooperation with the popular defense groups in war against Takfiri terrorism. The top leader and founder of Jaish al-Islam Zahran Alloush was among those killed in the airstrike on Friday.
With thousands of trained fighters, Jaysh al Islam is among the biggest and most organized rebel groups in Syria, and has been effectively running the administration of Eastern Ghouta.
Diplomats such as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry have promoted ending the civil war as the most important step in defeating Islamic State fighters and bringing stability to the region. Syria later said it was carried out by its own air force, but it is not thought to have the capability for precision strikes.
UN Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura, announcing the planned date of the peace talks in Geneva next month, said in a statement yesterday that he aimed to convene representatives of the Syrian government and “the broadest possible spectrum of the Syrian opposition and others”.
Allouch, who was in his mid-40s, was widely known to be supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey. “The more intense the war against it, the purer it becomes and the tougher it gets”, said the audio recording, described as being by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
They were subsequently pushed back by Palestinian militias and Syrian rebels after weeks of fierce fighting, and Yarmouk has since been divided into areas controlled by IS, the rival al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, and pro- and anti-government Palestinian militants. If his death weakens Jaysh Al Islam, government forces could advance in Eastern Ghouta and remove an important opposition bargaining chip in the peace talks.
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Militants and their families were due to be bussed to the Islamic State (IS) capital in northern Syria, Raqqa, under the first deal of its kind between IS rebels and the Syrian government, BBC reports. August 21, 2013 the Saudi intelligence asset Alloush was commanding Liwa-al-Islam when he gave the order to launch the chemical weapons attack against the East Ghouta suburb of Damascus.
