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HTS foreign fighter assassinated in Syria's Idlib
[NPASYRIA] On Friday, unknown individuals assassinated an Uzbek fighter
... they’re there to be martyrs, so it’s nice one of them got to achieve his life goal...
in the town of Armanaz in the countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria, which is controlled by 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, formerly known as al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 Front).

Local sources from the region told North Press that unknown individuals ambushed the Uzbek fighter Abu Mujahid al-Muhajir in Armanaz northwest of Idlib, where they shot him, abruptly ejecting him from the gene pool.

The area witnessed security alert by the General Security Service of the HTS after the incident.

The sources believed that the liquidation was part of the liquidations carried out by HTS of the imported muscle who have left its ranks.

On May 1, HTS transferred four foreign detainees, one of whom is of French nationality, from Prison 107 in Idlib city to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
 in northern Idlib, in preparation for handing them over to Ottoman Turkish intelligence.

This operation is the fifth of its kind in 2023. HTS’ prisons contain dozens of foreign holy warriors whom Ankara wishes to receive, without knowing the purpose behind it.


Posted by: Fred 2023-06-04
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