[NPASyria] The leader of 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) Abu Mohammad al-Golani met on Wednesday with Amer al-Sheikh, the dismissed leader of Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
, a faction affiliated with the Ottoman Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), a day after his dismissal.
An HTS military source told North Press that a meeting was held at the Bab al-Hawa border-crossing, north of Idlib city, between al-Golani, al-Sheikh and his deputy Abu Mohammad al-Shami, who is now the leader of the Ahrar al-Sham "coup movement".
The source added that al-Golani expressed his full support to the movement.
On Tuesday, five brigades of Ahrar al-Sham announced dismissing the group’s leader Amer al-Sheikh and designating Youssef al-Hamwi, nicknamed Abu Suliman, as a general commander.
The HTS took over SNA-held areas in Aleppo northern countryside in October under the pretext of breaking up internal-festivities between different Ottoman Turkish-backed factions. On October 10, fierce festivities took place between the SNA’s Hamza Division and Levant Front after the first assassinated a media activist muppet called Abu Ghannoum and his pregnant wife in the city of al-Bab, northern Syria.
New rifts have been coming out since the liquidation of Abu Ghannoum, with the factions of Hamza and al-Amshat taking the HTS side against the Third Legion, while Hayat Thaeroon for Liberation remained neutral. 
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