Advancing against the Sahwah
factions in Yarmūk
The Palestine Masjid in Yarmūk
following its liberation
Haniyyah, in response to the Khilāfah entering
Yarmūk and driving out his militia, called on
the Arab tawāghīt and even the Iranian Majūs to
intervene. The Ikhwān, in all their colors, would
sell their own people for the sake of worldly gain
and label the transaction “an issue of maslahah.”
the Nusayrī regime and the pro-regime Palestinian
factions in the area, who then began supplying
them with weapons, ammo, and food. This new
level of cooperation with the Nusayriyyah was
enough to demonstrate Aknāf ’s degree of treachery
towards the people of Yarmūk.
The preparation for the battle of Yarmūk began
with months of intelligence gathering carried
out by Islamic State intelligence agents who
managed to compromise the Sahwah leadership
on a very high level and gain hold of sensitive
information. The intelligence revealed that Aknāf
was forming a plan to hand the region of Yarmūk
over to the Nusayrī regime under the pretext of
“national interests.” The Islamic State acted on
this intelligence by creating a plan to counter
Aknāf ’s move, and by Allah’s grace, the mujāhidīn
succeeded in foiling the agreement. The battle for
Yarmūk began with the Islamic State attacking
from multiple directions and taking control
of a number of neighborhoods. As the battle
continued, Islamic State cells in Yarmūk as well as
the surrounding regions continued to play a key
role, including multiple units of Islamic State cells
in the Tadāmun region north of the town of Yaldā
who succeeded in blocking numerous supplies and
reinforcements coming from the area northeast of
Yarmūk.
Following the mujāhidīn’s liberation of Yarmūk,
the media jumped on cue and began disseminating
lies against the Islamic State and trumpeting the
cause of Yarmūk, an issue that they were largely
indifferent to throughout the years of siege and
starvation that the people of the region suffered.
As for the Nusayrī regime, it quickly sought to
find a support base with the secular tawāghīt of
the West Bank region – the PLO. Shortly after the
Islamic State took control of Yarmūk, the Nusayrī
regime reached a deal with the PLO’s envoy to
Dimashq that would see Palestinian factions
fighting alongside the Nusayriyyah against the
Islamic State.
The soldiers of the Khilāfah continued advancing
against the Sahwāt in Yarmūk and succeeded in
pushing them back to the edge of the region.
At this point, many of their fighters voluntarily
surrendered themselves and numerous others were
killed. The few who remained made contact with
So the tawāghīt of Hamas are appealing to Iran
for intervention, while PLO tawāghīt are agreeing
to have their militias serve as a Nusayrī Sahwah.
As the saying goes, “‘Ish Rajabā, tarā ‘ajabā” (If
you live to see the month of Rajab, you’ll see some
strange things).
The liberation of Yarmūk occurred against a
backdrop of a number of the Islamic State’s
advance in other parts of Wilāyat Dimashq.
The soldiers of the Khilāfah captured Mount
‘Ādah to the northeast, mopping up a number of
Sahwah strongholds in the Qalamūn mountains
in a campaign dubbed “Lā Tubqī Wa Lā Tadhar”
dabiq
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