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The leader of the Hamza Division eliminated in Aleppo province
2022-02-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin

[ColonelCassad] In the Al-Baba area, unidentified persons eliminated one of the leaders of the Hamza Division,
...one of the paramilitary units the Turks put together to form the Syrian Liberation Front...
Safi al-Ali, one of the main pro-Turkish groups in northern Syria, which has been operating in Syria since 2013. The Hamza Division fighters, in addition to hostilities in Syria, took part in hostilities in Libya and Karabakh.
Ah. The poor shmoes Turkey sent abroad to get them out from underfoot, but consistently forgot to pay...
Judging by the photographs, the car was shot almost point-blank from automatic weapons. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for this liquidation.

MAJOR VERSIONS.
1. Safi al-Ali was eliminated by Kurdish guerrillas operating from Afrin.

2. Safi al-Ali was removed by the Turks themselves due to some of their own reasons for the "rotation" of the leadership of controlled groups.

3. Safi al-Ali was eliminated by agents of the Syrian Mukhabarat operating in the territories occupied by Turkey.

4. Safi al-Ali was part of the internecine struggle of pro-Turkish groups or ISIS militants.

In any case, whoever ends it, a rather significant murder - in recent years he was one of the most senior leaders of the "green factions" oriented towards Turkey.



A leader in the Turkish-backed al-Hamza Division was killed yesterday evening, in an attack carried out by unknown gunmen in the city of al-Bab, east of Aleppo.

Unidentified gunmen directly shot the car of the leader of the Hamza Division, Safi al-Ali, a local source told North Press.

The leader was targeted in front of his house in the Haydariyah neighborhood north of the city, while the attackers fled away, the source added.

Since 2017, al-Bab city has been under the control of the Turkish-backed armed Syrian opposition factions following Operation Euphrates Shield, which was led by Turkey.

Areas under the control of the Turkish-backed factions have been witnessing security chaos accompanied by frequent explosions, in addition to cases of abduction and corruption amid the failure of these factions to maintain security.

On Sunday, Head of the local council of Rajo district, north of Afrin, Khalil Haj Oso, was seriously injured and his 15-year-old child was killed in an IED explosion inside his car in Afrin region, north of Aleppo, northern Syria.
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Hamza Division: 2021-09-27 Russia Raids Kill 7 Pro-Turkish Fighters in Syria
Hamza Division: 2021-09-24 Name changes fail to improve opposition image in Syria's northwest
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Bab city: 2021-09-11 Turkish soldiers, Syrian militias killed in al-Bab: Kurdish forces
Bab city: 2021-07-03 A prisoner exchange took place between Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed armed factions in the countryside of Aleppo
Bab city: 2021-05-01 SDF arrests ISIS cell in Syria's Raqqa
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