Syria Islamists challenge ISIL control of town on Iraq border
BEIRUT (Reuters) Islamist rebels waged a counter offensive in Syria border town of Albu Kamal on Saturday, challenging the grip of the Islamic canada goose black friday sale State in Iraq and the Levant cheap canada goose (ISIL) which has seized large uk canada goose areas on each side canadian goose jacket of the crumbling Iraqi Syrian frontier.
Men carry an injured child after what activists claim was a car explosion in a market in central Douma in the eastern al Ghouta, near Damascus June 28, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdullah
Earlier this week ISIL Canada Goose Outlet fighters appeared to be consolidating their hold over Albu Kamal when the local leader of the rival Nusra Front, al Qaeda official branch in Syria, pledged allegiance to them.
ISIL is a more radical offshoot of al Qaeda that has its roots in Iraq and expanded into Syria shortly after canada goose store the buy canada goose jacket start of the three year insurgency against President Bashar canada goose uk black friday al Assad.
It controls much of Syria eastern oil producing Euphrates River region, and its cheap Canada Goose lightning gains in Iraq Sunni Muslim northern and western provinces over the last three weeks means ISIL now commands a large cross border expanse of territory in which Albu Kamal forms an important link.
Men carry an injured child on a board after what activists claim was Canada Goose online a car explosion Canada Goose Online in a market in central Douma in the eastern al Ghouta, near Damascus Canada Goose Coats On Sale June 28, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdullah
An Islamist website quoted Abu Canada Goose sale Yusuf al Masri, the local Nusra Front leader who gave an oath of allegiance to ISIL canada goose factory sale on Tuesday, as saying a suicide bomber blew himself in Albu Kamal on Friday night, killing three of canada goose clearance Masri canada goose uk shop men and wounding 20.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain based monitoring group, reported heavy fighting overnight and into Saturday in the town between ISIL aligned forces and rival Islamists, who include Nusra Front canada goose clearance sale fighters from outside the town who had not sided with ISIL.
Men carry an injured child after what activists claim was a car explosion in a market in central Douma in the eastern al Ghouta, near Damascus June 28, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammed Abdullah
The Observatory Rami Abdul Rahman said local tribal figures were trying to broker a ceasefire across the eastern province canada goose uk outlet of Deir al Zor where Albu Kamal is located.
Albu Kamal lies across the border from the Iraqi town of al Qaim, which was seized by ISIL fighters more than a week ago.
The town was bombed by jets on Tuesday in an attack which Iraqi and Syrian sources canada goose coats said was carried out by Syria air force. State media in Damascus denied that any Syrian planes struck inside https://www.canadagoosejacketca.ca Iraq and Iraq prime minister said the Syrian jets hit targets inside Syrian territory.
The military gains by Islamic State fighters have highlighted the extent to uk canada goose outlet which the conflict in Iraq is intertwined with the civil war in Syria, where more than 160,000 Canada Goose Jackets people have been killed in the last three years.
On Saturday several people were killed, including at least two buy canada goose jacket cheap children, when a car bomb exploded canada goose coats on sale in the Syrian town of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus, the Observatory said.
Video uploaded on the Internet by activists canada goose showed the flaming wreckage of an overturned vehicle in front of the blackened pillars of a Canada Goose Parka nearby building, which activists said was located cheap canada goose uk in a popular Douma market.