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1359:. In revenge for ISIL's beheading of Jaysh members and releasing a video recording of the event in June 2015, Jaysh al-Islam's website published a video that showed its fighters executing 18 alleged ISIL militants by shotgun. The video mimics the imagery that ISIL has used for similar filmed executions; however, it reversed the imagery by having the executioners wearing orange prisoner outfits (reminiscent of the jumpsuits victims of ISIS would wear before their untimely executions) and the victims being dressed in black robes. ‘Qariban qariba’, a song used by ISIS in many of their videos played throughout the execution, albeit the lyrics altered to denounce the group (for example, it says “With the accusations of apostasy they shed blood” in reference to ISIS killing innocents and civilians) The video included some English subtitles. 382: 369: 343: 356: 1267: 967: 1515: 766: 1255: 1243: 503: 457: 61: 535: 469: 416: 53: 546: 2978: 1060: 443: 403: 515: 739: 715: 430: 727: 2970: 1440:(YPG) said that Jaysh al-Islam's "statement came after many conclusive evidences and reports of chemical gas being used in shelling Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud district". He also said that the group has attacked the Kurdish neighborhood of Aleppo with "forbidden weapons" many times since the war's start. Jaysh al-Islam subsequently clarified that it was referring to "modified 1395:, the caged people being used as human shields were captured Alawite military officers and their families who had been kidnapped by Jaysh al-Islam two years ago outside Adra al-Ummaliyah, a government-held neighbourhood in Eastern Ghouta. However, Jaysh al-Islam has not yet claimed responsibility for either of these alleged actions and 1016:(SMC), in December 2013 Zahran Alloush announced his departure from that SMC, saying: "our affiliation to the Council came when it was coordinating operations against the Assad regime without being dependent on any other party, and when it had signed no pledges as to the makeup of a future state. However, when the FSA 1222:
journalists, Alloush used less debatable rhetoric, claiming that Syrians should decide what sort of state they wanted to live under and that Alawites were "part of the Syrian people" and only those with blood on their hands should be held accountable. His spokesman went on to claim that the sectarian
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Zahran Alloush initially called for the establishment of an Islamic state in Syria but later renounced his previous positions, expressed support for an elected government, boasted about the protection his organization offers to Christians under its rule and even defined the Alawi sect as a victim of
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that may have contained chemical agents. On 8 April, a spokesman for the rebel group said that "weapons not authorized for use in these types of confrontations" had been used against Kurdish militia and civilians in Aleppo. He stated that "One of our commanders has unlawfully used a type of weapon
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encroached on the area of Eastern Ghouta controlled by Jaysh, which launched a campaign to drive them out, resulting in 95 casualties between 26 April and 1 May. The clashes enabled the Syrian Army to make advances in eastern Damascus. Demonstrators called for an end to the fighting; video footage
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reported: "...the leader of Jaysh al-Islam, or "Army of Islam" was killed in December last year in a government air strike. His death, however, did nothing to stop to the group's totalitarian rule in Eastern Ghouta, where residents say torture and imprisonment without trial occur routinely in the
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On 29 September 2013, 50 rebel factions operating mostly around Damascus announced their merger into a new group called Jaysh al-Islam. Liwa al-Islam was the dominant faction in this merger, and its leader Zahran Alloush was announced as the leader of Jaysh al-Islam. Thirty-eight of the original
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project records that Jaysh al-Islam is not designated as a terrorist organization by any major national government or international body. However, it notes that Russia, Lebanon, and Egypt have supported classifying it as such since the end of 2015. Later, however, JaI was designated "moderate
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also reported that "Syrian groups" saw Kerry's comments as an example of how the Obama administration has slowly moved toward the Russian view of Syria, which includes painting all opposition groups as terrorist organizations in order to justify attacking them.
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The US State Department in July 2016 confirmed that the US administration's policy with regard to Jaysh al-Islam had not changed: Jaysh was and is not a UN-designated terrorist group, is opposed to ISIL, and is not allied to Nusra.
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in buses, thus surrendering that town to the Assad government. Jaysh fighters and their families have resettled in northern Syria, in the Aleppo countryside, where they operate under the
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or other agents. Welat Memo, a physician with the Kurdish Red Crescent, said that the people affected are "vomiting and having difficulty in breathing." Spokesperson for the Kurdish
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has suggested the possibility that these 'hostages on public display' were a mere show, to sway public opinion against further government and Russian bombardments on Eastern Ghouta.
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reported that Saudi Arabia was preparing to give the group millions of dollars to "arm and train" its fighters, and use instructors from Pakistan to help train the group.
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groups listed as joining the merger were already members of, or affiliated with, Liwa al Islam. In September or earlier, Jaysh spokesman Islam Alloush had criticized the
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Since 2015, Jaysh al-Islam has called for the Syrian government to be replaced by a technocratic body that represents the diversity of the Syrian people.
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In that early period, Alloush condemned democracy and called for an Islamic state to succeed the tyrant Assad. However, in a May 2015 interview with
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circulated at the end of April appeared to show Jaysh al-Islam fighters opening fire on demonstrators who called for an end to the rebel infighting.
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with at least 12 missiles total. A video was posted on 29 July 2013, depicting some of the missiles being used to shoot down a Syrian government
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have remained neutral. Intra-rebel fighting in Ghouta took place in May 2016, with 300 deaths. On 24 May 2016, leaders of Jaysh al-Islam and
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and Sham will crush them soon, they will make you taste a painful torment in this world, before God makes you taste it in the hereafter".
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By November 2013, 60 groups had merged into Jaysh al-Islam, and more than 175 rebel groups around Syria expressed a desire to join it.
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opposition" in a December 2016 list released by the Russian defence ministry, and participated in the Russian-backed Astana talks.
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He claims that his Army of Islam has 10,000 fighters in the suburbs of Damascus and another 7,000 scattered elsewhere in Syria
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and Islamist rhetoric Alloush had previously made was only intended for internal consumption and to rally his fighters.
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Since the death of Zahran Alloush late 2015, there have been conflicts between Jaysh al-Islam and other members of the
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State Department officials are 'baffled' by John Kerry's latest comments that have 'muddied the waters' in Syria
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The Australian: "Syrian rival jihadi group, Jaysh al-Islam, execute ISIS fighters in brutal role reversal video"
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Human rights violations during the Syrian Civil War § Free Syrian Army and other armed opposition fighters
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of Islamist factions in November 2013 – decided he would no longer be part of the Supreme Military Council.
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Jaysh al-Islam's relationship with the United States has remained mixed. Former U.S. Secretary of State
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formed the "Military Council of Damascus and its Suburbs", under the direct command of Zahran Alloush.
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On 12 April 2018, some 13,000 Jaysh al-Islam fighters with their families have evacuated the town of
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As an example of the earlier sectarianism, in 2013 or earlier, Alloush in a speech suggested that "
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that is not included in our list". He did not specify what substances were used but, according to
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Syrian Rebel Leader Changes His Conservative Rhetoric in First Talk With an American Newspaper
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which was committed to a democratic, pluralist state, Alloush – who had started the new
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The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency
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From approximately January 2014 until July 2015, Jaysh was fiercely fighting
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and showed them on the runway. But so far, they haven't been used in combat.
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The new group's creation was said to have been negotiated and spearheaded by
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had come under the aegis of the Syrian National Coalition (in October 2013)
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Why Jaish Al Islam and Ahrar Al Sham are at the heart of Geneva squabbles
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watches Jaysh al-Islam recruits during a military parade with a captured
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was killed, along with several other leaders of the group, in a Syrian
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Reported capture of sophisticated equipment from the Syrian government
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Syrians Describe Horrific Torture In Jails Run By Islamist Militants
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In 2016, Jaysh al-Islam's ideology was described as a "mixture" of
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joint operations room along with other major Aleppo based groups.
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Coalition of Islamist rebel units involved in the Syrian Civil War
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In August and September 2015, Jaysh al-Islam shelled and stormed
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activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the
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Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict
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Until late 2015, Jaysh al-Islam at times cooperated with the
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Which rebel groups are fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta?
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On 25 January 2017, Jaysh al-Islam's Idlib branch joined
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against Syrian government air raids. According to the
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until December 2013, but in November 2013 started the
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Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War
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National Front for Liberation–Tahrir al-Sham conflict
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in mid-2011, where he had been serving time for his
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Al-Nusra Front–Syria Revolutionaries Front conflict
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Rif Dimashq offensive (November 2012–February 2013)
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Index

Army of Islam (Gaza Strip)
Islamic Army in Iraq


Zahran Alloush

Essam al-Buwaydhani

Mohammed Alloush
Islam Alloush
Ghouta
Qalamoun Mountains
Damascus
Ghouta
Damascus
Otaybah
Douma
Jarabulus
Turkish-occupied
Aleppo Governorate
Ghouta
Damascus
Daraa
Qalamoun Mountains
Ideology
Sunni Islamism
Salafism
Syrian nationalism
Syrian Islamic Liberation Front
Islamic Front

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