Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian jihadist group Jabhat al-Nusra on Sunday vowed revenge strikes against villages from President Bashar
al-Assad's community over claims his forces used chemical weapons, AFP reported.
"The Alawite villages will pay the price for each chemical rocket that struck our people in Damascus," al-Nusra front chief Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani said in an audio message posted on the Internet and on his Twitter account.
Assad hails from the Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam unlike most Sunni rebel groups fighting to topple him, including Al-Nusra whose chief in March pledged allegiance to Al-Qaeda.
The chemical attack was on rebel-held areas of the Eastern Ghouta and Western Ghouta zones of the Damascus region with aircraft and rocket launchers, causing several dozen dead and wounded, with death tools reached 1800 people according to Syrian Human Rights NGO's.
More than 200,000 people have been killed in the conflict,
according to Syrian Human rights NGO's and 1.7 million Syrians,
including one million children, have been forced to flee to neighboring
countries, the United Nations says.
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