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Arms Depot Blast Kills 6 Jihadists in NW Syria
[AnNahar] Six jihadists were killed Wednesday in a kaboom that hit their arms depot in northwest Syria while Russian warplanes flew overhead, a war monitoring group said.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights did not say if Russia was behind the blast that killed the non-Syrian jihadists allied with the Turkistan Islamic Party,
...the Syrian branch of the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), a particularly nasty Uyghur Salafist jihadi group based in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a presence in its native territory in China. The Syrian branch uses the Turkish Postal Service and Turkish banks to solicit donations under the name of "Türkistan İslam Derneği" and through the "Doğu Türkistan Bülteni" website...
a Uighur-dominated jihadist group.

"We don't know if it is the result of aerial bombardment or a kaboom inside the warehouse," Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said.

If confirmed, it would mark the first Russian strike on the Idlib region since a ceasefire went into effect in March.

Home to some three million people, the last major opposition bastion in Idlib is controlled by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
 (HTS) alliance, led by al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate.

A Russian-backed regime offensive between December and March displaced nearly a million people in the northwest, but at least 140,000 have returned since a ceasefire went into effect, according to the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
The truce, which coincided with the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 crisis, had put a stop to the relentless air strikes by the regime and Russia that killed at least 500 civilians in four months.

Wednesday's explosion hit an arms depot in the al-Taybat village near the town of Jisr al-Shughur, which is controlled by the HTS-allied Turkistan Islamic Party, the Observatory said.

Russian warplanes were flying overhead at the time of the blast, it added.

Nearly half of Idlib's population consists of Syrians displaced from other parts of the country.

The war in Syria has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced nearly half of the country's pre-war population since it started in 2011.

While a ceasefire in Syria has reduced combat between rebels and government forces, mercenaries from the two sides are still fighting in Libya on behalf of their Russian and Ottoman Turkish backers.
A brilliant solution to the problem of too many vicious Lions of Islam for the area to support. May it soon be there is only one.
UN experts estimated that up to 5,000 Syrian mercenaries may be in Libya, including "those fighters recruited by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 in support of the" UN-recognised Government of National Accord.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-05-28
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