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Suspected ISIS IEDs kill 6 rebels in Daraa

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six rebel fighters were killed on Friday when two explosive devices stuck their cars in southern Daraa province, local activists said. 

The improvised explosive devices have turned fatal weapon tracking moderate rebels in Daraa as clashes renewed with Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, the ISIS-linked group.


IEDs are commonly used as roadside bombs in Syria.


Two Islamist judges wounded in explosive device attack targeted the Justice Court in Daraa in Daraa, field activists said on Wednesday. Also, On Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a base belongs to ‘Mu'taz Bellah’ Brigade in Mzairib town in the western countryside of Daraa, leaving one fighter dead.

10 fighters from the Jaish Khaled Bin Walid were killed, along with two women believed to be the wives of fighters by suspected Israeli airstrikes on Sahm al-Jolan town, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Jaish Khaled Bin al-Walid was formed in May 2016, and is an alliance of several militant groups, the largest of them the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, which was listed by Washington as a “terrorist” group.

The Observatory said Jaish Khaled Bin Walid is estimated to have some 1,200 fighters, and controls territory in western Deraa province, along the border with the occupied Golan Heights. 

Two week ago, six rebel factions led by former al-Qaeda group launched assault on Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights.

Tahrir al-Sham alliance backed by Ahrar al-Sham and four armed groups is seeking to defeat to break the siege imposed on the village of Hait as well to take village of Jellin and its camp in the western countryside. 

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