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Turkish-backed forces fight one another in northwestern Syria
[AlMasdar] Two Ottoman Turkish-backed bully boy groups clashed in northwestern Syria this weekend, causing a new wave of violence in the western countryside of the Aleppo Governorate.

According to local reports from the Aleppo Governorate, the festivities broke out between Jabhat al-Shamiya (Levant Front) and Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
(Army of Islam) in the Afrin region, resulting in a heavy exchange of gunfire in a number of neighborhoods.

The reports said the conflict between the two large bully boy factions occurred over the control of some residential buildings inside the Afrin region of the Aleppo Governorate.

Furthermore, a local from Afrin told RT Arabic on Saturday: "The reason for these festivities between the Ottoman Turkish-backed factions is due to their difference over the sharing of the properties of the city’s original residents."
Thieves falling out over distribution of loot? How sordid.
He added, "Members of Jabhat al-Shamiya confiscated the money from a number of Jaish al-Islam elements coming from Libya, and after that, festivities erupted. "
Well sure. One group suffered the tortures of the damned at the hands of the ‘orrid Ottoman, while the other group didn’t get paid. So naturally sleeves are rolled up in preparation for slitting throats.
Local Syrian activists also confirmed that two members of Jaish al-Islam were killed and about 12 others were maimed as a result of Jabhat al-Shamiya’s attacks on the former’s headquarters in the city center.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-14
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