...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS — formerly 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) raided on Tuesday dawn, homes of three gunnies of Firqat al-Ghuraba
...also in our archives as Firqatul Ghuraba, since 2015 the Francophone jihadi group has fought under the Al Qaeda-linked Turkistan Islamic Party’s command in Syria led by Omar Diaby aka Omar Omsen, the Senegalese-Frenchman from Nice...
group in the town of Harem, west of Idlib, on charges of dealing with the US-led Global Coalition.An exclusive source told North Press that HTS members raided the house of Abu Dujana al-Fransi, Abdurrahman al-Muhajir and Abu Suhaib, and took them to the interrogation center in the city of Sarmada, north of Idlib, under the pretext that there is evidence that they had exchanged information with the US-led Global Coalition.
Firqat al-Ghuraba is an active jihadist group aligned with al-Qaeda based in opposition-held areas in Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria. The group mostly consists of foreign gunnies from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
with many, including the group’s leader, originating from La Belle France and Belgium.
The source stated that the arrests of foreign gunnies on charges of dealing with external parties have recently increased, especially against Uzbeks and Russians. In the previous weeks, 16 imported muscle were arrested.
The town of Harem and Salqin contain around 125 families of foreign gunnies of the Firqat al-Ghuraba group, according to a source from the HTS’ Development Office in Harem.
Recently, HTS has tightened the screws on imported muscle who are not allied with it. Dozens of these gunnies are currently held in HTS prisons, and Ankara continues to receive them, without knowledge of the purpose behind it.
Founded in 2017, HTS controls the city of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, using the Salvation Government as a political and administrative umbrella since.