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ISIS after controlling Azaz, opens new Shariah court and Police station

 

Emir of The Islamic State of Iraq an al-Sham, al-Qaeda affiliate group, declared opening a new Shariah court and Police station on Thursday in 'the new Islamic Emirate', Azaz, according to his twitter account.

 The Sate new procedures came days after controlling the border city from the local rebel group known as the Northern Storm that led the fight last year to oust government forces from the town.

The conflict has shuttered a Turkish border crossing long used to supply the rebel movement and heightened tensions between rebels who seek the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad and extremists who want to erase Syria’s borders and establish a transnational Islamic state.

Rebels who oppose the ISIS jihadists have collected their forces at the Bab al-Salameh border crossing a few miles away and are preparing to protect it should the jihadists advance.

The rise of ISIS in rebel-held areas in northern and eastern Syria has posed a problem for the broader rebel movement. While many insurgents are deeply Islamist themselves, their focus remains on toppling Mr. Assad, and they accuse ISIS of prioritizing its own jihadist agenda over the fight against the president. But the rebels hesitate to confront ISIS, saying their resources are already stretched by fighting the government.

Last week, a Qaeda spokesman accused the Northern Storm of attacking first and said the rebel group had struck a deal with Senator John McCain during his brief visit to Syria this year to fight against ISIS “and hit the mujahedeen''.

 

Zaman Alwasl
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