...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...and their allies from the Turkestan Islamic Party and National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I
the much belovedhas jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
launched a powerful offensive in the northwestern countryside of the Hama Governorate.
Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham began the offensive by storming the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions at the town of Jalameh near the Idlib Governorate border.
The Syrian Army managed to beat back the jihadist rebels at Jalameh after a short battle on Thursday.
According to a Sputnik News Agency correspondent, "The Syrian Army forces were able to thwart an attempted attack by holy warriors on the axis of the town of Jalameh in northwestern Hama on Thursday. Several gangs from Turkestan and China attacked the positions of the Syrian Army on this axis, resulting in the loss of more than 25 button men, a tank and several vehicles armed machine guns."