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Blast in northern Syria kills 8 militants, wounds others

2021-08-25

[AlAhram] An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight button men and wounding others, opposition activists said.

It wasn't immediately clear what caused the earth-shattering kaboom at the base of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
in the northwestern province of Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the country, but some said it was a shell that went kaboom! as fighters trained. HTS is the most powerful group in Syria's northwest.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the earth-shattering kaboom near the village of Ram Hamadan was apparently caused by a shell that went kaboom!. The Observatory said eight fighters were killed and 10 were maimed.

It added that the earth-shattering kaboom occurred as drones of the U.S.-led coalition were flying overhead.

Step news agency, an activist collective, said at least nine fighters were killed and others were maimed in the blast. Step said it could have been caused when a mortar shell went kaboom! during training.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee, has militarily crushed many of its rivals within the opposition, carried out a crackdown against the civilian population and set up its own so-called ``salvation government'' in 2017 to run day-to-day affairs in the region.

The group, which is led by Syrian citizen Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has been marking itself in recent years as a Syrian opposition group and distancing itself from al-Qaeda.

Syria's 10-year conflict has left about half a million people dead and half the country's prewar population of 23 million displaced, more than 5 million of them as refugees outside the country.

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