This mobilization was very apparent in alQunaytirah and al-Qalamūn. In the last few days,
the regime made it easy for the convoys of Jaysh
al-Islām to exit and go towards East Qalamūn
to fight the Islamic State on its behalf. These
coalitions were mirrored elsewhere on a large scale,
in South Dimashq in general and in the Yarmūk
Camp specifically. There were major plans made
by these factions (Jaysh al-Islām, Shām ar-Rasūl,
Abābīl Hawrān) to besiege the Islamic State in
South Dimashq. These factions plotted and
started fighting the Islamic State to expel it from
the planned “reconciliation” regions because the
Khilāfah completely rejects a “reconciliation” and
fights and arrests anyone who pursues such an
endeavor. Quickly, the Islamic State discovered
these wicked plots, and began to thwart them.
With Allah’s help, the plot to hand over the region
to the Nusayrī regime was defeated.
Dābiq: Do any of the factions show interest
in joining the Islamic State? Have some of the
soldiers and brigades of the factions come to
give bay’ah to the Islamic State?
Yarmūk: After crushing the Sahwāt in al-Hajar
al-Aswad region and after the great victory that
Allah granted to the Islamic State, the soldiers of
the factions who fought against the Islamic State
found themselves at the crossroads. After this
battle, the Islamic State became more powerful
than before and its reality thereby became
apparent to those seeking the truth, and so many
soldiers of the factions rushed to participate in
the Sharī’ah seminars conducted by the Islamic
State. There were hundreds of participants, and all
praise is due to Allah. We witnessed many pledges
of allegiance from many well-known battalions
in the region who dissolved completely into the
Islamic State.
Dābiq: Why did the regime resort to using
barrel bombs against the camp?
Yarmūk: What occurs to any place the Islamic
State takes control of is that the regime carries out
different kinds of airstrikes upon it. These regime
airstrikes carry a number of purposes, among
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them, to force the local population to leave the
areas controlled by the Islamic State and enter
the “reconciliation” areas so that they thereby
strengthen the Sahwah’s fight against the Islamic
State, and to give a message to the public that
any region controlled by the Islamic State will
be totally destroyed, and as a result, any attempt
by the Islamic State to capture other regions will
terrify the people of those regions. They also serve
as a hopeless attempt by the regime to discourage
the Islamic State from making any more
advances. This is evidence of the regime’s military
bankruptcy. Every time the Islamic State advances
and inflicts severe losses on the Nusayrī army and
militias, in revenge, the regime conducts random
airstrikes on places where Muslims live.
Dābiq: What’s your take on Zahrān ‘Allūsh’s
recent trip to Turkey? Do you think that the
apostates will try to carry over the “Storm of
Resolve” to Shām in defense of their Sahwāt?
Yarmūk: Zahrān ‘Allush’s visit to Turkey and
meeting with a number of leaders of the major
factions that fig ht in Shām has its dimensions and
consequences. Even the military demonstration
performed by Zahrān’s army in al-Ghūtah on
the occasion of the graduation for the training
seminar was basically a message to the nations of
the West and their puppets in the Gulf indicating
that they are ready to secure the capital Dimashq.
With Zahrān’s departure to Turkey, a number of
factions in eastern Ghūtah dissolved and joined
Zahrān’s army. We believe that there will be great
support for Zahrān ‘Allūsh from the Gulf and the
West in order for him to enter the capital, even if
the matter requires a “storm of resolve,” like the
one Yemen has witnessed.
Dābiq: You know the importance of Dimashq
towards the future of Islam, the Malāhim, and
al-Malhamah al-Kubrā. How can the Muslim
support the mujāhidīn in Wilāyat Dimashq
now?
Yarmūk: Our role model and noble Messenger
(sallallāhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) praised Dimashq
very much, and this was mentioned in a number