| Responding to this story from yesterday? |
The #HTS arrests seven people including a woman in the north of #Idlib, northwest #Syria, after al-Qaeda leader was killed.https://t.co/p0qs5BOIyd
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) April 4, 2023
The General Security Apparatusof Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...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) carried out a series of arrests on Monday hours after the death of one of the commanders of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Hurras al-Din (Guardians of Religion) by a guided missile launched from a drone likely to be of the US-led Global Coalition on the outskirts of the town of Killi in the north of Idlib, northwest Syria.
Hurras al-Din is an Islamist radical group established in Idlib, northwest Syria, in early 2018 as part of al-Qaeda’s global network.
An exclusive source of the General Security Apparatus told North Press that the arrests occurred in the towns of Haznawa and Killi and some nearby camps. They arrested seven people, including an Iraqi woman, Abla al-Rawi. The arrests ended on Tuesday at dawn.
The source added that the arrests were conducted based on information from cooperative sources in addition to looking into the criminal history and security behaviors of some civilians in the targeted area. The detainees were taken to Prison 106 in the city of Sarmada in the north of Idlib for investigation amid fears of a secret execution.
The arrests were ordered by Abu Maria al-Qahtani, HTS’ most notable security official, with the consent of the Shura Council, according to the source.
The HTS, founded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib using its Salvation Government as a political and administrative umbrella since