Zahran Alloush, Leader of the biggest Islamic group in Syria has tweeted, ''we reach 24 thousand followers within 24 hours,'' I believe that F.B had closed the page because of Infidels hatred for Muslims, Alloush added.
50 rebel brigade and battalion merged yesterday to form a new front against Bashar al-Assad to fight his regime under the banner of 'Islam Army', the united fighting groups said in Communique No.1
The group will be the biggest operating in the area, leaving the Free Syrian Army, the military wing of the internationally recognized National Coalition of opposition parties, more isolated than ever, according to Al Jazeera.
The Islam Army nucleus was Islam Brigade which was set up by Mohamed Zahran Alloush from Douma, east of Damascus.
The elderly patriarch Mohammed Alloush, a religious scholar, lives in Saudi Arabia. His son Zahran, a salafi activist jailed by the government in 2009, founded the group when he was released from prison in mid-2011.
It rose to prominence after bombing the National Security Office in Damascus in July 2012, which killed several of Assad’s leading military officials. Considers itself “the biggest faction in the Damascus region” and claims to have 64 sub-battalions, but it refuses to give an estimated number of fighters.
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