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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/islamic-state-secretly-near-israel-border-syrian-rebel-group-claims/
Report: Islamic State Making Inroads in Villages near Golan in Syria
(Times of Israel) Elhanan Miller - The Islamic State terror group is operating sleeper cells in southern Syria near the border with Israel, a spokesman for the opposition Free Syrian Army charged Sunday. The spokesman said that some of the 6,000 Islamist fighters who fled southward toward the borders with Israel and Jordan in July actually belong to the Islamic State, not to the Nusra Front as previously believed. Eyal Zisser, an expert on Syria at Tel Aviv University, said, "The Islamic State is trying to establish itself all across Syria....Other groups are trying to associate themselves with it and pledge allegiance to it. Some do so out of fear of IS, while others hope to benefit from it in the future."