...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 the city and the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Local sources told North Press that a night-time protest took place today’s evening near Newroz Roundabout at the city center of Afrin. Protesters rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the HTS and the presence of its security services in Afrin.
Protesters demanded the HTS to leave Afrin and hand the city back to the
The Protest started amid tight security measures, while the factions of Hamza Division and al-Amshat, both allies to HTS, set up joint checkpoints on the Afrin-Kafr Janneh road to prevent
The sources pointed out that it was supposed for the demonstration to start on Friday but the supporters of the SNA’s Third Legion marched on Thursday evening.