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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

French jihadist killed in Syria clashes, his group says

2023-01-18

Good. More, please.

[AnNahar] A French jihadist has been killed fighting Syrian regime forces in northwestern Syria, his faction announced.

The bully boy used the pseudonym Abu Hamza, but his real name could not be verified.

Firqatul Ghuraba,

…since 2015 the Francophone jihadi group has fought under the Al Qaeda-linked Turkistan Islamic Party’s command structure in Syria…

a group of foreign jihadists in Syria's last main rebel-held region of Idlib, announced "the martyrdom of one of its heroes... from the French Muhajirin, our brother Abu Hamza".

The group is led by Omar Omsen, also known as Omar Diaby, a French national of Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
ese descent suspected of funneling francophone fighters to Syria. He is wanted on a French arrest warrant.

He comes from the Nice region, as it turns out, and as of a few years ago his parents were willing to lie about his death so he could safely leave Syria for major surgery.

In a statement on WhatsApp, the group said Hamza died in the Jabal al-Zawiya area of Idlib during "a military advance of the Assad regime."

Along with the statement, the group published photos of men carrying what appeared to be a body which they put into the earth.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, Hamza was killed on Sunday during combat with the army of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
's regime, and was buried on Monday in the Jabal al-Zawiya area.

The French jihadists are mostly fighting alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else

...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate which, with other rebel groups, controls parts of Idlib.

Over the past decade, thousands of holy warriors from Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
travelled to Syria to fight alongside jihadist groups, but with Russian and Iranian support Damascus has clawed back much of the territory it lost earlier in the conflict.

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