(Zaman Al Wasl)- A key alliance group north Syria, vowed in statement issued Saturday to revenge to martyred clerics killed Thursday in Lebanese border town of Arsal.
Fatah Army, or the Army of Conquest, said the members of Qalamoun Sharia Society are not linked to Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, accusing Iran-proxy Hezbollah Shiite militia of carrying out the roadside car bomb against Syrian scholars in Arsal northeast Lebanon, killing nine people and wounding the head of the society, Sheikh Othman Mansour.
The key rebel group in Syria said Hezbollah tried to take advantage of the deadly attack by linking the scholars to Nusra and to justify their killing as well to bush Lebanese army to conduct more attacks.
In different accusation, a source with close ties with the Nusra Front, said Islamic State fighters who carried out a car bomb.
The source said that ISIS had opposed Nusra plan to establish new rebel faction, Tahrir al-Sham Brigade, in coordination with Qalamoun Sharia society that would be active in Qalamoun region.
The blast ripped through a commercial area of the Sabil neighborhood of the town of Arsal. Emergency services were working to rescue people from the rubble, local media said.
ISIS has not issued any statement denying Nusra's accusations.
The two Sunni Islamist groups have a limited presence in western Syria near the Lebanese border.
Syria's civil war has regularly spilled over into Lebanon, which shares a more than 300 km (190 mile) border with its bigger neighbor, and is still rebuilding after its own 15-year civil war.
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