Areas held by
...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) areas in Idlib are witnessing security chaos amidst the groups’ inability to control the security situation.
"Field leader Ibrahim al-Hamed, a.k.a. Ibrahim al-Ansari, lost his life after he was stabbed with a knife several times," local military sources told North Press.
Al-Hamed’s body was found near Ma’arat Misrin city, north of Idlib.
Medical examination showed that the cause of death was ten knife wounds, and that he was bound and his body showed signs of torture, according to the sources.
Al-Hamed, who is from Deir ez-Zor in Syria’s east, had a brother Abu Hafes, a military leader who died during
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
’s Operation Peace Spring against Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Tel Abyad, north Syria, the sources added.
Ahrar al-Sharqiya was formed in November of 2016, with most of its snuffies from villages and clans of Deir ez-Zor.
Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
activists and international human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
organizations condemned Ahrar al-Sharqiya because its snuffies were involved in human rights violations in