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TERROR WARS
IS arrests 'extremists' accused of plot against group
by Staff Writers
Beirut (AFP) Dec 22, 2014


Coalition strikes hit IS north of Syria's Aleppo: monitor
Beirut (AFP) Dec 21, 2014 - US-led coalition air strikes hit the Islamic State group Sunday in areas north of Syria's second city Aleppo where it has been fighting rival jihadists, a monitoring group said.

It was the first time that coalition aircraft had targeted IS in the Madajen area, where it has been fighting Al-Qaeda loyalists of Al-Nusra Front and their allies, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

The area lies between the IS stronghold of Dabiq and the town of Marea to the southwest, which is held by its rivals.

"At least 12 coalition strikes hit IS positions and weapons depots in areas that had never been targeted before," said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.

"The strikes might help the rebels and Al-Nusra Front in their fight against IS," he added.

Al-Nusra and its allies have been battling IS in Aleppo province and some others parts of Syria since January.

The drive by IS to assert its dominance in rebel-held areas which culminated in its declaration of a "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria in June prompted armed resistance from the rival rebel groups.

Washington launched an air campaign against IS in Iraq in August, extending it to Syria the following month with the support of Arab allies.

The Islamic State group has claimed the arrests of four jihadists it classified as "extremists" accused of plotting against the organisation in areas of Iraq and Syria under its control.

In a video purportedly posted by IS on jihadist websites, a male voice claims to have "captured an extremist religious cell planning to take up arms against the Caliphate," referring to the regions it controls in both countries.

In what IS said were confessions, the four detained men said they had plotted against IS as the group doesn't view "all Iraqis and Syrians as infidels".

The men, speaking Azerbaijani Turkish, accused IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of being "an infidel as he takes money from infidels".

The video does not specify when or where the men were arrested but it carries the initials of Syria's Raqa province, a stronghold of IS in the north of the war-ravaged country.

The fate of the four detainees is also not revealed, although the video ends with the recitation of a Koranic verse stating that those who fight against God and the Prophet Mohammed deserve to die or have their arms and legs amputated.

The Financial Times newspaper over the weekend reported that 100 foreign IS members had been executed by the group after trying to flee Raqa.

Four children dead in Syria school bus strike: monitor
Beirut (AFP) Dec 22, 2014 - At least four Syrian school children were killed and 10 wounded on Monday when a regime air strike hit their bus in the northwest of the country, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of those wounded and killed when the Syrian air force hit a school bus near the village of Jubass in Idlib province were under the age of 10.

"The toll could go rise as there are serious injuries," said the monitor, which has a wide network of sources on the ground across Syria.

Idlib is largely in the hands of Syria's Al-Qaeda franchise, Al-Nusra Front, which in recent weeks has fended off advances by rival rebel groups and now holds two strategic military bases in the province.

Syria's air force is a significant tool in the arsenal of President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have fought a devastating conflict against insurgents since 2011.


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