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2019-01-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Turkish-backed rebels prepare to fight one another in Afrin

[ALMASDARNEWS] The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed rebels are preparing to fight one another inside the Afrin region of Aleppo after tensions recently increased between the Jaish al-Islam

...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful...
and Ahrar Sharqiyah factions.

According to local reports, both ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed rebel groups have closed off the roads leading to Afrin’s city-center as all parties expect a fierce battle to breakout soon.

Ahrar Sharqiyah has caused a lot of problems inside Afrin over the last few months, prompting several groups to intervene in an effort to put an end to the corruption.

The ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish-backed rebels that make-up the Euphrates Shield forces captured the Afrin region in March 2018 after a nearly two-month-long operation.

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