Alloush was ideologically at odds with Islamic State and al-Qaida, espousing a more moderate brand of Islam.
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The rebels said Alloush was killed while holding a meeting with other rebel leaders in the Marj area of al-Ghouta, which has been the target of a major Syrian assault in the last few weeks.
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It said the deal fell through after a top rebel commander, Zahran Alloush, was killed in an air strike on Friday.
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Khaled Abdul-Majid, a Damascus-based Palestinian official, said in a statement Sunday that the agreement had stumbled following Allouch’s killing. But Lebanon’s Hezbollah-run TV station Al Manar said Allouch was a key figure in arranging the rare deal, and that his assassination has delayed its implementation.
The Army of Islam had sent representatives to Saudi Arabia this month to participate in talks among the different opposition groups to decide on representatives for peace talks that are supposed to begin next month.
The Islam Army was the main rebel group responsible for the daily mortar attacks against civilian areas inside Damascus. He said those talks would include the “broadest possible spectrum of the Syrian opposition and others” and that they will require the “full cooperation” of all parties to the conflict.
Meanwhile on Saturday, the United Nations Syria mediator, Staffan de Mistura, is pushing forward with a plan for Syrian peace talks to start next month. “Continuing developments on the ground should not be allowed to derail it”, the statement said.
Russian Federation is a staunch supporter of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, who Qatar and other Middle East countries accuse of war crimes.
Militants and their families were due to be bussed to areas under the control of their respective groups, under a deal between rebels and the Syrian government.
IS militants took over parts of the camp earlier this year.
FILE – Zahran Alloush, head of the Army of Islam Syrian rebel group, speaks during the wedding of a fighter in the group in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern edge of Damascus, Syria, July 21, 2015.
“They killed a man who was going to play a crucial role in Syria”, Ahmad Tumah, the designated opposition prime minister, told Al Jazeera on Saturday. The AP could not immediately confirm the claim.
The authenticity of the recording could not be confirmed.
The Observatory said it was unclear in the immediate aftermath whether the airstrike was launched by Syrian or Russian warplanes.
In mid-December, Saudi Arabia announced the new, 34-member alliance against terrorism, to be based in the kingdom’s capital, Riyadh.
But critics accused him of sectarian politics and brutal tactics similar to that of the Islamic State group.
Spokesman Colonel Talal Selo said the seizure of the dam, with the backing of U.S. coalition planes, helped isolate the militants’ strongholds in northern Aleppo from their territories east of the Euphrates river, where Raqqa is located.
Syria’s state television channel also reported the death by air strike, but did not say who had carried out the raid.
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The arrangement was the first of its kind between Syrian authorities and Islamic State. The village itself is known to house many chicken farms, which supply large parts of Syria with eggs and the attack apparently took place in one of the chicken farms.
