(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an ISIS affiliate based near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, local activists said on Thursday.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an ISIS affiliate based near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, local activists said on Thursday.
The major offensive come after several skirmishes took place in in the Yarmouk Basin between Jaish Khaled Bin Walid,based and the Jordan-backed rebels in last few months.
Jaish Khaled Bin Walid was formed in May 2016, and is an alliance of several jihadist groups, the largest of them the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, which was listed by Washington as a terrorist group.
Daraa-based activists said The Israeli air force has been pounding ISIS bastions near the occupied territory.
At least 10 members of Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, along with two women believed to be the wives of fighters, were killed last October in Israeli air strikes on the town of Sahm al-Jolan in the west of Daraa, according to AFP.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Jaish Khaled Bin Walid is estimated to have some 1,200 fighters, and controls territory in western Daraa province, along the border with the Occupied Golan Heights.
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