Fourteen people were killed, amongst them three children, and twenty others injured in a suicide bomb attack which targeted a soup kitchen belonging to Jaysh al-Islam, a batallion of the armed opposition, in the city of al-Dameer, rural Damascus. No side claimed any responsibility for the attack, however it is assumed that ISIS are behind […]
Two Prisoner Swaps in Rural Damascus
The checkpoint at Bibiliah town in eastern rural Damascus witnessed a prisoner swap operation on Monday evening between regime prisoners and those of “Duha al-Islam”, an armed opposition battalions of southern Damascus. Six prisoners were released, including four women and two elderly men, in return for “Yusuf Tawfeeq Shbeeb”, an officer of the Lebanese militia […]
Al Jazeera Eastern Ghouta Correspondent Threatened
Al Jazeera Channel has announced that at the end of September the “Jaysh al-Islam” (Army of Islam) group kidnapped the father of their correspondent in the Eastern Ghouta, Samarah Qutili. They did this in order to blackmail and harass Qutili, eventually forcing her to change her place of residence. The channel also announced that it […]