Its leader, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, also said residents of the northwestern city of Idlib would be treated well by his fighters and other Islamist factions that captured it on Saturday.
"We salute the people of Idlib and their stand with their sons, the Mujahideen, ... and God willing they will enjoy the justice of sharia, which will preserve their religion and their blood," Golani said in an audio recording posted on the internet.
[jpost.com]
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Syria, Iraq a ‘finishing school’ for foreign fighters: UN report...
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The experts, who monitor al-Qaeda sanctions violations, said in a report seen by Reuters that along with the 22,000 foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq, there were also 6,500 in Afghanistan and hundreds more in Yemen, Libya, Pakistan and Somalia.
At a meeting of the 15-member Security Council chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama in September 2014, the experts were asked to report within six months on the threat from foreign fighters joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has declared a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, the al-Nusra Front in Syria and other al Qaeda-linked groups.
“For the thousands of [foreign fighters] who traveled to the Syrian Arab Republic and Iraq ... they live and work in a veritable ‘international finishing school’ for extremists as it was in the case in Afghanistan during the 1990s,” the experts wrote in their report submitted to the council late this month..............http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/syria-iraq-a-finishing-school-for-foreign-fighters-un-report.aspx?pageID=238&nID=80459&NewsCatID=352
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