Free Syrian Army fighters are silhouetted as they stand on one of the front lines of Wadi Al-Daif camp in the southern Idlib countryside September 18, 2014. Picture taken September 18, 2014. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
Free Syrian Army fighters are silhouetted as they stand on one of the front lines of Wadi Al-Daif camp in the southern Idlib countryside September 18, 2014. Picture taken September 18, 2014. Reuters/Khalil Ashawi

Guerrilla groups have started to emerge in Syria, whose target is the blood-hungry jihadi fighters of the ISIS. One group named itself "White Shroud" purposely to instill fear among the senseless radicals, the group's leader said.

The moniker, group leader Abu Aboud told Reuters, refers to the death shroud that awaits Islamic State fighters responsible for crimes against the Syrian people. Islam believers, based on the teachings of their prophet Muhammad, use a white shroud for the dead when it is time to bury them.

Albeit without proper training in combat fight, Abu Aboud, not his real name, said that once they get to capture an ISIS fighter or member, the goal is to "liquidate" the person "later on."

Abu Aboud said majority or 80 per cent of the White Shroud members know nothing about combat before the ISIS aggression erupted. "We trained them and they joined White Shroud because of the great oppression they felt after Islamic State took control."

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a U.K.-based human rights organization which tracks the war, confirmed to Reuters it has observed a rising number of attacks on Islamic State targets by gunmen in Deir al-Zor province. Based on his own calculations, Abu Aboud said their group has killed over 100 ISIS fighters in Deir al-Zor province in attacks in recent months.

Abu Aboud, who described himself as a commander in an anti-Assad insurgent group, said White Shroud currently has 300 members and operates in and around the town of Al Bukamal at the Iraqi border. The area, he said, is highly essential to the radical extremists because it links the bailiwicks it controls Syria and Iraq.

Asked about the airstrikes, Abu Aboud said they were ineffective. It never destroyed and degraded the extremists. It only made them disperse, but the ISIS is still whole and big. Abu Aboud said the group used to gather in large numbers, but ever since the onslaught of the airstrikes, "they now move in small groups using motor bikes, often at night."

White Shroud isn't the only guerrilla group acting in Syria alone. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, there are other groups like the "Phantom Brigade" and "The Brigade of the Angel of Death."

Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one group made a nighttime gun attack on a checkpoint in Al Mayadin town in Deir al-Zor province, killing no less than 10 ISIS fighters. "There is an increase in their operations against Islamic State," Abdulrahman said.