...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) was killed and three others were maimed in a kaboom of a warehouse for manufacturing explosives near the city of Jisr al-Shughur in the western countryside of Idlib, northwest Syria.
Exclusive military sources told North Press that the earth-shattering kaboom took place due to a mistake while preparing the filling for a manual artillery shell, resulting in the earth-shattering kaboom of the rest of the manufactured projectiles and the raw explosives.
The explosion also caused destruction to more than half of the factory.
The sources added that the earth-shattering kaboom also killed "Abu Farhan Tafkhikh," specialized in weapons manufacturing and combinations, and maimed three of his assistances amid blackout by the HTS regarding information related to the earth-shattering kaboom.
Early in March, a factory for manufacturing IEDs, belonging to Ansar al-Tawhid, a faction affiliated with the HTS, near Ma’arat Misrin in Idlib northern countryside. Two krazed killers, who operated in the factory, were killed and a third was maimed, while the HTS announced that one krazed killer was maimed only.
Sources from the HTS said at the time that the earth-shattering kaboom took place due to a technical mistake.