The aftermath of Nusayrī barrel
bombing in Yarmūk
(It Lets Nothing Remain and Leaves Nothing
Unburned). During the course of the campaign,
the mujāhidīn of the Islamic State succeeded in
killing the Jawlānī front’s commander for the
region of East Qalamūn, as well as Jaysh al-Islām’s
commander for the region.
These victories against the Sahwah camp coincided
with a daring raid on a number of military points
in the Suwaydā’ countryside south of the city of
Dimashq that comprise the Nusayrī military’s first
line of defense for the Khalkhalah military airbase.
A lengthy battle ensued in which the mujāhidīn
of the Khilāfah left the Nusayrī army licking its
wounds with more than 70 of its soldiers dead. Just
two weeks later, the mujāhidīn continued pouring
salt into the Khalkhalah wound by shooting down
a Nusayrī warplane in the vicinity of the airbase.
It was in this context that Yarmūk was liberated,
with the soldiers of the Khilāfah suddenly
positioned only a few kilometers from the tāghūt
Bashar’s presidential palace. This new development
meant that the Sahwah factions in the southern
region of Syria were seeing the symbolic city of
Dimashq falling out of their reach. They wanted
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to claim the glory of driving the Nusayrī army out
of Dimashq for themselves, so the thought that it
could potentially be liberated by the armies of the
Khilāfah was like a dagger in their throats.
It wasn’t long before the leaders of “Jaysh al-Islām”
and “Ahrār ash-Shām,” two of the main Sahwah
factions in the Shāmī arena, were catching a flight
to Sahwah Base #1 – Turkey – and holding meetings
with their murtadd allies – Turkey, Qatar, and Āl
Salūl – in an effort to hammer out an agreement
that would secure their regional interests.
As the Sahwah factions continue executing the
orders of puppet regimes, and Nusayrī forces
step up their bombing campaign in Yarmūk in
a desperate attempt to stop the Islamic State’s
advance, the armies of the Khilāfah will continue
marching towards Dimashq, and soon after that,
towards al-Aqsā by Allah’s permission.
The Prophet (sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,
“The stronghold of the Muslims on the day of
al-Malhamah will be in al-Ghūtah, next to a city
called Dimashq, one of the best cities of Shām”
[Reported by Abū Dāwūd from Abud-Dardā’].