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Mount Hermon battles highlight divide among Druze communities | Al Akhbar English
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According to Syrian military forces, al-Nusra Front is attempting to link the borders with the occupied Golan Heights to Damascus’ western countryside and Khan al-Sheikh, in order to circumvent the Damascus-Quneitra road after failing to take Qatna and Saasaa. According to security sources, “the militants have brought reinforcement for this purpose from Jubata al-Khashab through Beit Jinn, but the army foiled them in collaboration with the Popular Committees and the NDF.”

While anger and sorrow have been the predominant reaction of the Druze community in Syria, the repercussions of what happened will no doubt leave a deep mark on nearby Lebanese and Palestinian villages. The events in Mount Hermon served to cement the positions of the rival Druze parties in Lebanon who are at odds over the Syrian crisis, and highlighted the sharp disparity in the Druze street on this issue.

Khaleej Times - 21 August, 2014

A Kuwaiti, Hajjaj bin Fahd Al-Ajmi, considered a financier of Al-Nusra Front, a Syrian rebel group linked to Al-Qaeda, was arrested yesterday on his return from a visit to Qatar, activists said.

They said on Twitter that Ajmi, 26, was arrested at Kuwait airport.

The UN Security Council last Friday placed Ajmi and five other Islamists on an Al-Qaeda sanctions list, imposing a travel ban and assets freeze. They are accused of providing money, fighters and weapons to extremist groups.

In early August, the United States also imposed sanctions on Ajmi and two other Kuwaitis for allegedly raising money for Al-Nusra Front.

Will the ’Emirate of the Levant’ be announced on Eid al-Fitr?
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Fighters from the Islamist rebel group #Al-Nusra_Front allegedly dig a tunnel under a military site of the Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of #Aleppo on July 17, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ahmed Deeb) Fighters from the Islamist rebel group al-Nusra Front allegedly dig a tunnel under a military site of the Syrian government forces in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on July 17, 2014. (Photo: AFP-Ahmed Deeb)

Preparations are underway by al-Nusra Front on the ground and in terms of sharia (Islamic law) to announce the Emirate of al-Sham [Greater #syria], which a jihadi source expects would be on the first day of Eid al-Fitr [the holiday at the end of Ramadan]. The Nusra waged new battles in #Idlib's countryside, (...)

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Jihadists shoot dead Syrian boy in eastern #Lebanon
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Syrian jihadists executed a 14-year-old Syrian boy in a Lebanese border town, state media and reports said. The National News Agency said that members of #Al-Nusra_Front, al-Qaeda’s official proxy in #syria, killed Khaled Mustafa in the eastern town of Wadi Hamid, near #Ersal. Private news agency Elnashra said the victim had got into a verbal argument Wednesday night with his killers at a gas station where he worked. After the altercation, the gunmen kidnapped Mustafa and shot him in the head, Elnashra said. read more

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