Six fighters of the Al-Sham Corps were killed after their vehicle was targeted with an IED on the Damascus-Aleppo highway near the village of Khan al-Sabil in the Idlib countryside. The fighters were returning from a western Aleppo front and were members of the Al-Fatiheen Regiment of the Al-Sham Corps – one of the biggest Turkey-backed groups.
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In the northern Idlib countryside, one of the Sharia’a judges of Hayat Taahrir Al-Sham (HTS), Abu Torab Mohsen (Laili Hasan Al-Laili), was assassinated in norther Idlib country side.A unknown militiamen shot him in еру Selqeen market.
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Laili Hasan is from Dir Ezzor. He is one of the first members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Deir Ezzor, before defecting and joining the al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda branch in Syria. Now, the al-Nusra Front is known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
The assassinations are believed to be linked mainly to the ongoing tensions between the Al-Sham Corps and HTS.
The tensions had grown after the Maghawir al-Islam Regiment operating in the northern Aleppo countryside defected from the Al-Sham Corps and joined HTS.
It seems thatHTS is working to increase its influence in the Euphrates shield-held areas in northern Aleppo. This is an obvious step for the terrorist group after it had succeeded in capturing a major part of the province of Idlib. The remaining FSA groups in Idlib de-facto operate under a direct HTS command.
