The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(ISIL) denied killing its military leader, the powerful foreign Jihadist Abu
Omar Al Chechani north Syria, according to sources.
Al Chechani, former commander in Al
Nusra Front, is leading ISIL's infighting with Syrian rebels in Aleppo province
since the breakout of the clashes two weeks ago.
The veteran Al Qaeda member has high
‘Jihadist’ record, he has been to Chechnya and Afghanistan before coming to
Syria to fight alongside with Nusra Front, to join the ISIL later.
Activists said that he was the commander
of the attack that has been initiated on the military airport of Ming in Aleppo
countryside.
Since a fortnight, the Syrian
Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen Army, the Islamic Front has
been engaged in fierce fighting with ISIL in rebel-held areas.
The latest clashes broke out after
residents accused ISIL members of killing a doctor in Syria’s northern province
of Aleppo.
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.
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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