More than
300 prisoners in the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s chambers have been
escaped while 70 other prisoners have been killed in ISIL’s main
headquarters in Kadi Askar in Aleppo.
The tragic
massacre has been committed few hours before Syrian rebel brigades taking
control of the headquarters of the ISIL, according to sources.
“Al Qaeda
radicals have committed the second massacre in two days, killing tens of
abductees from media activists and rebel fighters,” activists said.
Journalists
Milad al-Shihabi and Ahmed Brimo were freed from ISIL’s prison in Childern
Hospitan in Aleppo, according to Brimo’s family.
ISIL has
been fighting a coalition of moderate and Islamist rebels angered by a spate of
abuses by the jihadists, who have been accused of kidnapping and killing
civilians and rival rebels.
Late
Tuesday, an ISIL spokesman said the group would "crush" opposition fighters
and warned that it considered members of the opposition National Coalition and
the military command of the Free Syrian Army to be "legitimate
targets."
ISIL has
been accused of horrific abuses in areas where it operates, and also of seeking
hegemony by taking key roads and checkpoints from its rivals.
Some Assad
opponents have even accused it of serving regime interests.
Since
Friday, along with the Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen
Army, the Islamic Front has been engaged in fierce fighting with ISIS in
rebel-held areas.
The latest
clashes broke out Friday after residents accused ISIS members of killing a
doctor in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo.
The focus of
combat has been in opposition areas in Aleppo and Idlib provinces, but Sunday
spread to Hama and Raqqa provinces.
ISIL is
considered one of the most extremist and intolerant groups currently involved
in the fighting against Bashar Assad, even in comparison to the other rebel
group linked to al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra.
The group’s
gains have underscored growing infighting among rebel factions seeking to oust
Assad. A recent takeover of opposition warehouses by ISIL members spurred the
US and UK to announce they would suspend the nonlethal aid they had been
providing to Syrian rebels.
Syria's
armed uprising began as a series of peaceful democracy protests 33 months ago
but escalated into a full-blown civil war after Assad's regime launched a brutal
crackdown on dissent.
The conflict
is estimated to have killed around 130,000 people and displaced millions
more.
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