Islamist Rebels Oust ISIL from Syria's Deir Ezzor

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The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant withdrew from the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor on Monday after a three-day battle with Islamist rebels, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said ISIL withdrew from the province, which borders Iraq, after fighting a coalition of opposition brigades including al-Qaida's Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

ISIL is facing a widespread backlash from an array of rebel brigades angered by its abuses against civilians and rival opposition fighters.

Though it grew from al-Qaida's onetime Iraqi affiliate, al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has distanced his organisation from ISIL and ordered it to return to Iraq.

ISIL's chief has ignored the admonition and continued to engage in clashes with rebels across opposition-held areas of Syria.

Al-Nusra had largely stayed out of the clashes with ISIL, but the Observatory said it joined around 10 other brigades in the fight against the jihadist group in Deir Ezzor.

The loss of Deir Ezzor province could be a serious setback for ISIL, as it holds oil reserves and is a key conduit for the jihadists to receive weapons and fighters from neighboring Iraq.

More than 1,700 people have been killed in the clashes between rebels and ISIL that began in early January, according to the Observatory.

Comments 59
Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 12:48

Oh really? If you belong to other sects than wahabism, then they will behead you so how can it be employed by Dr. Assad?

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 13:47

Do u remember hamza el khatib u know the 13 old boy from darraa who got tortured and killed in the begining of the uprising?..
He was not beheaded but u conssider that a clean modern death while held by official regime institution?.. 13years old man, 13 years old,what kind of threat was he????
Is it better than fanatics al qaida act, is it more secular? More progressist, more modern?...
Chupachups mystic, really chupachups...

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 15:03

yes i remember hamza. it's terrible what the jihadis did to a child, only to accuse the regime. and even more terrible that media played the game of the jihadis, by repeating their allegations without verifying anything.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 15:47

It was before armed revolt, he was under syrian forces custudy and sent by surian forces to the parents.. Syrian forces have jihadist running their jail interogations mouwaten?..
Bravo man, really, not seeing things in same is a thing, having different opinions also but distorting facts man...
Bravo mowatenn, really... Thank u for ur wise and very human input, now u can go work with sana...
Chupachups mowaten... Chupachups..

Thumb _mowaten_ 11 February 2014, 11:10

it was before the armed revolt, yes and no: there had already been dozens of policemen and soldiers killed, but i agree it was before the major fighting started. And this is why i suspect rebel groups to be behind it, because served as a great trigger of outrage against the regime.
however no, he was not under syrian forces custody, and his body was dumped and left to be found by TVs

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 12:48

This is a good thing, let the takfiris slaughter each other, save us the time and bullets.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 15:01

lol according to "terrorist" there are the bad "isil" (who was allied to nusra = al qaeda) and the good rebels... who are allied to nusra = al qaeda!!

i guess al qaeda kicked them out because they were bad publicity, but kept nusra, who planted hundreds of bombs in civilian areas since 2011, in syria and lebanon.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 15:40

the good terrorists at work
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=783_1392020086

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 10 February 2014, 15:44

Bunch of lies from the lovers of criminal Bashar.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 16:14

yea bashar invented the whole thing. there are no qaeda or jihadis in syria, it was all a big joke to make "peaceful protesters" look bad.

Missing mohammad_ca 10 February 2014, 16:22

ASSad's former ambassador to Iraq has already revealed that ASSad was funding alQaeda there.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 16:33

let me guess, by "former" you mean defector? that makes it all so credible.

Missing mohammad_ca 10 February 2014, 16:42

he was credible enough to be hired so howcome not credible after he defected? Very smart argument!

Thumb geha 10 February 2014, 17:09

I wish for once to see m8 guys siding with their country against Syria and Israel.

but no that will never be, because they are blind followers of murderers executing their orders blindly, thus making them pure traitors.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 10 February 2014, 18:14

Mowaten - the lie is that they are the same and that they are all takfiris. People making such a claim are the true takfiris.

Missing ArabDemocrat.com 10 February 2014, 18:16

And yes, Bashar regime has been responsible for creating and funding many of the most extreme sunni groups. ISIL and Fatah Al Islam being perfect examples.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 20:04

LOL, you guys really believe your own lies?? you believe the most improbable propaganda because some rumors from some obscure groups say so, and regularly disregard any facts that come against it.

need a reminder? bahia hariri admitted having given hundreds of thousands of dollars to fath el islam for "humanitarian reasons" (milk and blankets i guess??)

Missing mohammad_ca 10 February 2014, 20:29

obscure group? the ambassador is representative of the government so that's highly obscure...and it's not "rumours" either.

Thumb _mowaten_ 11 February 2014, 11:12

do you really need it spelt out mohammad!!!?? a defector by definition no longer represents his country. a defector by definition has betrayed and turned from one side to another. a defector by definition will say anything the "other" side he is joining wants him to say. damn, how thick are you???

Thumb _mowaten_ 11 February 2014, 11:18

anonyme you're such a hypocrite and honestly disgusting me everyday more. you are the one who NEVER provide sources and run away each time after making claims.
i always provided sources and you ALSO run away once i do so and stop replying. now you dare say that about me?
here's to prove you wrong, once more:

"Bahia al-Hariri, sister to the slain prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri and the March 14 minister of parliament for Sidon, has been forced to defend against charges that she and her allies have supported Jund al-Sham (Daily Star, June 7; an-Nahar [Beirut], June 5). A piece of evidence surfaced, however, showing that $100,000 was paid this last week to Jund al-Sham by the Palestinian Liberation Organization with money received from Bahia al-Hariri (Daily Star, June 7). http://www.lebanonwire.com/0706MLN/07061705JT.asp

Missing mohammad_ca 11 February 2014, 15:08

by the way the ambassador did NOT join the opposition, he defected. Meaning he left the treacherous regime...turned his back on the regime and exposed its lies. Unless you don't think the ASSad regime is murderous??? I'm glad you can carry on a civilized argument without resorting to insults and name calling :)

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 12:49

What about Al Nusra? They are Al Qaeda offspring too, do they belong to the government aswell?

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 13:42

Mystic.. Always so cleaver, fatah islam leader chaker el abssi was freed from syrian jails and sent to lebanon.. While poltical detaines usual rarely go out of those jails, and sent to lebanon for wich reason?...
This is not a litle confusing?.. Even for u who seem to know syrian regime so well?...
Have a good day mystic, and surely some chupachups...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 14:12

Conspiracy theories again? You think everything is Syria right? Don't forget who supported Al Qaeda affiliated groups through generations, USA.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 14:27

Indeed mystic but i never said i was a USA fan.. In fact suria, usa, iran, ksa, israel..all those act to their own benefits but where is our benefit in this?..
Plus can u tell me qhere the conspiration theory is in what i said, i only gave facts (that i find a litle weird: chaker el absi freed from syrian jails and sent to lebanon).. U have some other version of that?.. Please do share with us..
Till then chupachups man, chupachups...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 15:28

Geagea was freed from Syrian jails and he came to Lebanon too. That is my answer.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 15:35

Not really but geagea was put in jail in lebanon (as other who also commited attrocities during war got minestrial posts) aoun was sent in exile; both of them by syrian regime then...
But thank u for ur clear and very relevant answer...
No chupachups? Sure? U seem tensed, it might help.. Chupachups?...

Missing samy2 10 February 2014, 16:47

mystic, you need a good slap on the right cheek man.

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 17:33

Oh really, why don't you try it yourself?

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 17:38

Everybody here says i live in Dahieh, so you should try there first, ask for a Hezbollah supporter and say you want to slap him.

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 13:17

Fatah Al Islam attacked Lebanon 2007 long before the Syrian Crisis, did Hezbollah drag them into Lebanon aswell? Hmm

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 13:18

M14 always come with the same lameful arguements, saying Hezbollah dragged Al Qaeda in, Al Qaeda had a foothold in Lebanon long before the Syrian crisis began

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 13:49

Mystic.. Always so cleaver, fatah islam leader chaker el abssi was freed from syrian jails and sent to lebanon.. While poltical detaines usual rarely go out of those jails, and sent to lebanon for wich reason?...
This is not a litle confusing?.. Even for u who seem to know syrian regime so well?...
Have a good day mystic, and surely some chupachups...

Missing cedars 10 February 2014, 13:54

All of them are sons of hizbollah, all terrorists learned about terrorism the HA way from the 1980s. Extremists were born the HA way and gotten worse.
Look at the suicidal attacks in Beirut and hijacking planes in he 80s, earlier and in the 70s they dragged pregnant women in the streets behind their cars after villages takeover.

Thumb _mowaten_ 10 February 2014, 15:04

do you really believe what you write? or is it just to earn a paycheck?

Thumb terminator 11 February 2014, 12:09

you know the worst thing in life? being known as a liar.
even your sons will be known as the sons of a liar.
your grandchildren......

its really not a good habit to lie the way you do.

Thumb lebanon_first 10 February 2014, 13:56

I love your hit parade... And I agree to it with one change. Number one terrorist should be Assad/SSNP who attacks Lebanese without any provocation. As for the rest I think it is fair.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 14:37

When a party conssider a jew as the enenmy (lam youharbouni bi ardina wa dinena ella el iyehoud) it is not very secular flamethrower...
Chupachups man, chupachups...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 15:19

SSNP are one of the first resistance groups. But ofcourse falangists and takfiris/israelis USA and the rest of M14 hates them.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 15:41

Snsp was first of resitance group true, and they gave martyrs to liberate our land like sanaa mhaydleh.. They were in the patriotic resistance (launced by georges hawi) before hezbollah was even created also true happy u remember..
But that doesnot make it a secular group mystic...
Man u r nervous today.. Chill, hv some rest, take a chupachups..
Just one more thing snsp splited (like in syria) at the end of civil war and a lot of the comrade were executed then for being against syrian regime.. Then snsp was forbiden in syria till late 1990s begining 2000s and only those who accepted working under baath supervision were alaowed into politics(like syria's communists..)
Please correct me if i'm worng mystic, and again calm down, have some chupachups man...

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 15:44

Flame i suggest u read antoun saadeh before making wise coments so it doesnot look too stupid...
It is not bc u r friends with assad hardan and co tgat u know the snsp ideology..
So please read man...
But thanks for the advice now go for some chupachups..

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 16:32

That is another matter, right now the most important thing is, the takfiri infestation gets burned out, and the imperialist forces NATO etc. Should have their greatest defeat in Syria.

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 16:33

I talk about the present, i'm not going to discuss with you something that happend 30 years ago.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 16:57

Ok mystic so now u wanna discuss imperialism.. Good topic, i used to believe that imperialism is the act of a nation using power and (directly or by proxy influence) to submit other nation so that they can profit from their wealth, geaographical position...
I had no idea that it is only USA and nato.. Syrian regime egemony over lebanon could be put under the tag of imperialism (or even colonialism with anjar being the syrian representative and we know the rest of the story.. If u were in syria and u think that we were so happy in lebanon then please talk with ur new FPM friends..)
So ur argument of batle against imperialism...
As for our history and things that happened 30 years ago, and i was answering ur post(it is nice when u guys remember some stuff of the past and decide to forget the rest..).. And frankly; sanaa mhaydleh, lola abboud, souha bchara and all of our patriotic heros deserve to be remembered..
Again mystic chupachups..really...

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 17:13

Flame laicity is by defenition: donnit treat others bc of their religious appartenance, so when a poltical party puts jews as ower enemies (not zionist bu jews) then it is not laic (secular)..now before writting any stupidity please read antoun saadeh..
Plus u are asking them to forget about great syria (wich has nothing to do with assad regime btw but refer to fertile crescent..) there was ghssan teuini who wrote something similar which can inters u if u really believe in that..
So read man, read...
And take a load of chupachups with u cause as it seems u might hv some surprises..
Last SNSP doesnot have comunist ideology, antoun saadeh put a transitional economic approach for great syria and was executed after so on that point relax.. Chupachups man, chupachups..

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 17:35

Nope, because Syria brought back stability in Lebanon after the civil war imagine. They left in peace during the year 2005, and then they were gone. Just sad some people still goes back so long, you should instead open your eyes, and see who the real threats is now present time, that is not Syria. That is Al Qaeda and Israel

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 18:04

First southern sory for being stuck in 1979 but i usually coment on the topic raised but the funny thing is that none of u forgot LF attrocity, but u as a southern firgot more than 2 years of war between hebollah and amal (aklum al tofah) forgot assassination of comunist leaders by hezbos, forgot how patriotic resistance front was shut down by force (despite that comunist still made operations till 2000..) so if i can sometimes refrech ur memories.. U are more than welcome...
Now that u got ur memory refreshed and as a witness of what happened in south lebanon who chose deliberately to forget (while only remembering LF) go have some chupachups...

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 18:08

As for u dear friend mystic, syria briught us peace, prosperity, freedome.. Choukran assad and baathist regime..
U just missed some decades of lebanon existance man, i told u u should look to something else than SANA man, really...
Now that u are in lebanon, and obviously using the net, please go take a look, ur new friends FPM (that i used to do sittings with from late 1990s till not so far ago might be of help; u know aoun said pretty nice things while promoting syrian accountability act)..
Anyway chupachups man, chupachups...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 14:03

I can imagine you have been in Syrian jails, since you hate the government so much? I think that is why you talk about chupachups too much, you couldn't get enough in jail could you?

Dr. Assad is a good and moderate leader, fighting Al Qaeda and saving his country from destruction. Now let's talk about the start of the unrest, which i don't see as an "uprising" but as a foreign invasion by the west and Israel, these so called kids as you mentioned, never existed, it was propaganda from the media.

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 14:03

Al Jazeera, Al Arabiya, Naharnet etc.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 14:34

Ok then i get it.. While i do aknowledge that jazeera, arabia, cnn...are biased u should take a look elswhere than sanna u know ur so objective info network that had put a video of a man getting slaughter in lebanon after he rapped an old lady few years ago as some fanatic act from daraa.. And this is only one (but verry clear exemple of sana objectivity)..
And hamza el khatib never existed he was only a zionist/takfiri/ksa/imperialist invention...
Bravo mystic.. I hope that not all assad followers are as moderate as u..
Now really go have some chupachups man, really...

Missing peace 10 February 2014, 14:36

funny how those bashar M8 lovers quickly forgot that this regime harboured, trained, financed, used islamist extremist groups for their own purpose...sent them to lebanon...and suddenly? waw! the regime is a victim! they have no more links to islamic parties!!! it is all from abroad!!
alzheimer or very good hezbi brainwashing...

but then again brainwashing is already easy on empty brains....

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 14:47

We still have very secular progressist hachem minkara wou implented islami laws (charia) in tripoli el mina during war, threw people alive with feet in ciment to the sea, spread acid on unveilled women, also sent back from syria and now a march 8 ally in tripoli..
But sorry now he became a very secular person, just tried to forbit unveilled women in the area of his mosque wich lead to altercation with civilian and one lebanese soldier wounded in gun shots in late 2000s..
But all this doesnot cout, hariri, allouch, late chateh... Are the true takfiri in their blinded eyes...
Chupachups all march 8, chupachups...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 15:29

Still i do not believe any al qaeda members were freed. Look how many broke out in Aleppo prison when they made suicide attacks against the prisons walls.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 18:12

Nice lecture min canada, thank you for ur input.. Really..
Just one coment salafist coming from lebanon are numerous but still less than the one coming from europe/US/caucase/arabic penincula... So please not all on lebanon..
But i do agree, saddely, on ur lecture of the facts..
Saddely...

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 18:26

Rather Dr. Assad than Al Qaeda. Anytime and forever Bashar instead

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 18:33

This is an equation assad is trying to impose on syrian people for years now..
I will give u another one: rather freedome or death...
Now go have chupachups mystic.. I've been telling u this since this morning, u look tired today..

Thumb Mystic 10 February 2014, 19:17

The people want to go back to the lives they used to have with Dr. Assad, nobody had empty bellies, everything was way better than it is now, free hospitals and schools. Min-canada i see your avatar, and your name you are from the west and is probaly affected by the western propaganda. You should know that Bashar al assad is not the devil the west and salafis makes him out to be, he is a good leader and has actually saved it from total western control, it is a sovereign state, which should be respected and not invaded.

Missing imagine_1979 10 February 2014, 18:40

I wish i could share ur optimism, but i learned never to count on foreign interventions (it comes usually with a tough price..) i count on syrian people, they are strong (all had more than 2 years military training) they hv tasted freedome (briefely but enough to know what it looks like)...
U know beirut got liberated in1982 by lebanese from different religious believes, comming from most lebanese regions, before hezbollah was created...
I wish i could share ur optimism.. Anyway i think the end result will be the same but it will be long and it will cost the life of thousands innocent people.. (He is bombing residential areas with scuds, explosive barrels, even our zionist enemy was less of a monster, and he is a monster...)
Hv a good day texas..