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2023-06-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
HTS arrests 4 members of a jihadi group called Ajnad al-Kavkaz who were of Russian origin
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The general apparatus of the 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, 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) arrested on Sunday four members of a jihadi group who are Russian nationals in Idlib Governorate, northwestern Syria.

The arrestees were members of Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen-led Jihadi Islamic fundamentalist rebel group that is active in northwestern Syria, and they were arrested while trying to cross the Syrian border to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
in the town of Kherbet al-Joz, north of Idlib.

An exclusive source told North Press that one of the arrestees were a military leader known as Abu Islam al-Kavkazi who is affiliated with Abdulhakim al-Shishani.

The source said the arrestees were moved to 106 prison in the town of Sarmada, north of Idlib.

The HTS, founded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, using the Salvation Government as a political and administrative umbrella since.
Posted by Fred 2023-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ]  Top
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