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| HTS formally bans and informally permits tobacco in Syria's northwest |
| 2021-09-25 |
[NPASYRIA] The 35-year-old Mustafa Kamel (pseudonym), an IDP in the city of Idlib, northwest Syria, heads to the northern countryside of Aleppo every day, in order to smuggle tobacco, which is banned by 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) in their areas of control under the pretext of prohibition. |
| Posted by:Fred |