[ALMASDARNEWS] A huge kaboom could be heard in the western countryside of Aleppo on Friday as a military base belonging to Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (Syrian al-Qaeda branch) was targeted in what proved to be a car kaboom.The suicide kaboom took place in the Rif Muhandseen al-Than area, not far from Urum al-Kubra town, and resulted in the death of 4 HTS fighters while a handful of murderous Moslems sustained shrapnel injuries.
| Less than ten casualties? That's not much of a gathering. |
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
this is the same region that witnessed infighting between HTS and its primary rival Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
, events which led to the defection of Harakat Nour al-Deen Zenki a couple weeks ago.
ISIS is also known to have sleeper cells in the region while the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) intelligence apparatus, known as the mukhabarat, also operates behind enemy lines.