On August 9, ISISs top leader in southern Syria, Abu Salem al-Iraqi, was killed in a confrontation with former rebels in the town of Adawan in the western countryside of Daraa.
After being cornered in his hideout inside the town, al-Iraqi detonated an explosive belt he was wearing killing himself as well as a former rebel and wounding a civilian he had taken as a hostage.
The former rebels who carried out the raid in Adawan were among those who joined the general reconciliation agreement in Da... [see source for more information]