...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), arrested on Friday two leaders of Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
faction due to supporting a new leadership of the faction represented by Youssef al-Hamwi.
Military sources close to Ahrar al-Sham told North Press that the security forces affiliated to the HTS arrested the leader of Liwa al-Adyat, affiliated to Ahrar al-Sham, Abu Jaffar al-Hamwi, and the leader of al-Harari factions in al-Maghawir brigade, affiliated to Ahrar al-Sham, Abu al-Zahra’ al-Ghab.
On November 9, five brigades and battalions of the
The arrest was carried out due to supporting the secession of the founding part of Ahrar al-Sham from the group led by Amer al-Sheikh, affiliated with the HTS, according to the sources.
The sources pointed out that the HTS arrested the two leaders on the road linking the town of Babesqa with the border city of Sarmada with
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
, northern of Idlib, as they were heading towards a military post of Ahrar al-Sham in the town of Harem.