...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS, formerly known as 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) handed over, at midnight on Saturday, a leader of Saudi nationality in the ranks of al-Qaeda to
A security source told North Press that the Saudi leader, Nayef al-Shammari, nicknamed Abu al-Awf al-Jazrawi, was handed over under the supervision of Abu Maria al-Qahtani, the leader of the of HTS’ General Security Apparatus, as part of the continued handover of imported muscle to
Al-Shammari was considered one of HTS’ most prominent "Sharia scholars" in the Qalamoun region in Damascus during its rule there (al-Qaeda at the time), to move to Idlib in 2017 through smuggling routes, with the head of al-Nusra Front in Qalamoun, Abu Malik al-Tali and a number of leaders and fighters.
On June 1, HTS transferred four foreign detainees, one of whom is of French nationality, from Prison 107 in Idlib city to the Bab al-Hawa border crossing with
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
in northern Idlib, in preparation for handing them over to
This operation is the sixth of its kind in 2023. HTS’ prisons contain dozens of foreign bully boyz whom Ankara wishes to receive, without knowing the purpose behind it.
HTS, rebranded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and western Aleppo Governorate, under the guise of the Salvation Government.