(better known by its former name, 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) has been gruesomely assassinated by unknown assailants in Idlib province.
The Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham official, identified as Harb Abu Sa’eed, was both a commander and the bad boy group’s treasury chief for financial affairs in Hama province. Two of his bodyguards were killed along with him in the attack.
Reports state that Harb Abu Sa’eed and his attache where bumped off by five masked assassins in the countryside east of the town of Maraat al-Numan.
No information exists on the allegiance of the armed attackers or their motives ‐ all beat feet from the scene of the liquidation without being caught or identified. Often it is the case with such instances that a rival bad boy group or a government sleeper cell was involved.