...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) installed a number of checkpoints near the town of Jindires west of the city of Afrin, north of Aleppo.
An exclusive source told North Press the HTS installed the checkpoints east of the town.
The source added that the HTS installed a temporary checkpoint within the town "under the pretext of banning thefts by
The past few days, the region witnessed the entry of hundreds of aid trucks and cars coming from many other regions in addition to relief aid, and rescue and emergency teams from Arab countries.
At dawn on Feb. 6, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, killing tens of thousands and injuring many more. The earthquake also caused immense destruction of buildings, trapping thousands under the rubble.
Local and international saving-life aid continues to flock to the region to help those affected by the earthquake amid talks on ongoing thefts by the
On October 13 of 2022, the HTS took full control of Afrin, following the withdrawal of Third Legion from the city toward Azaz.
On October 17, the festivities between both sides came to a halt after
On Oct. 21, on the back of
On October 25 of the same year, Military columns of the HTS withdrew from areas in Afrin and its countryside towards Idlib, while maintaining its security forces there.
However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
North Press, through correspondents and sources, monitored that the withdrawal was pro forma imposed by Turkey following international rejection for al-Nusra’s expansion in areas north of Aleppo.
On Jan. 20, 2018, the
The operation caused the displacement of about 300.000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.
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