Daoud Brigade to launch major military act against Assad forces in Idlib

Daoud Brigade will launch major military act against Bashar al-Assad forces in coordination with other rebel factions in Idlib countryside, sources told Zaman Alwasl.

The Daoud Brigade, which has pledged allegiance to the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), issued a statement last week calling for an end to fighting among rivals. 

The group said it had reached a "partial solution to end the bloodshed in the eastern suburbs of Idlib" through a ceasefire with other rebels and a renewed focus on fighting the government, according to Reuters.

Many foreign fighters, who defected ISIL, had joined Daoud brigade in its stronghold of Sarmeen in Idlib while the ‘State’ loyalists had left to Raqqa.

The statement said the Daoud Brigade sought to expand the ceasefire to the rest of Syria, but the impact of the call was not immediately clear.

 Nearly 1,400 people have been killed in Syria since clashes between rebel forces and the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant  (ISIL) erupted this month, a monitor said Thursday.

“The number of people killed in fighting between the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Islamist and rebel forces since January 3 has risen to 1,395,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.