The New Arab Website cited military sources as saying, "The readmission of the two factions to the Second Legion came under
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
’s orders after designating Fahim Issa as a general commander of the legion."
This step came within the framework of reorganizing the SNA factions, according to the sources.
On October 26, there were reports talking about a
Within the reorganization framework, Liberation and Construction Movement (LCM) — which includes the factions of Ahrar al-Sharqiya, Jaish al-Sharqiya, 20th Division, and Suqur al-Sham — began to dissolve itself to implement the agreement that resulted from a meeting between the leaders of the SNA factions in the
On November 3,
On October 11, the factions of al-Amshat and Hamza supported 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) during the festivities that took place in SNA held-areas, north of Aleppo.
The following day, the HTS controlled the city of Afrin and Jindires district besides tens of villages in the countryside of the city under the pretext of "repelling offences" from the SNA’s Third Legion against Hamza Division on the back of killing a media activist and his pregnant wife in the city of al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
On October 21, the HTS withdrew its forces and its heavy weaponry from the village of Kafr Janneh, Afrin and Jindires towards its areas of control in Idlib, following a
Military sources told North Press in a previous statement that the great convergence between the HTS, al-Amshat and Hamza Divisions and other factions paved the way for the HTS’ security service to set a foot in these factions’ areas while disguised in their uniforms.