Assad strikes back: Syrian rebel leader 'is killed in Russian airstrike' after his forces seized Aleppo and marched on Damascus threatening dictator's regime - forcing ISRAEL to plan to go in if situation deteriorates
Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the current commander-in-chief of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Shamgroup, is understood to have been inside the building at the time of the attack and may have been killed.
www.dailymail.co.uk
30 Nov 2024 ~~ By OLIVIA CHRISTIE, MIRIAM KUEPPER & SABRINA PENTY
A Syrian rebel leader may have been killed in a Russian airstrike on a terrorist hideout after his forces seized Aleppo in a shock offensive, local media has reported.
Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the current commander-in-chief of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Shamgroup, is understood to have been inside the building at the time of the attack.
Syrian newspaper Al-Watan reported that a tight security cordon has reportedly been place around the organisation's headquarters - but whether Al-Julani's has been killed or not is yet to be confirmed.
The terrorist is one of the most prominent leaders of the armed factions that have been engaged in battles with the Syrian army and he has a ÂŁ7.9m bounty on his head.
It comes after President Assad's forces warned in a statement on Saturday that they had redeployed and were planning a counterattack.
Meanwhile,
Israel is said to be preparing for a scenario where it would need to act if the situation deteriorates.
Intelligence chiefs have reportedly told Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu 'the collapse of the Assad regime would likely create chaos in which military threats against Israel would develop.'
Al Qaeda-linked rebels advanced south towards Damascus on Saturday, a day after they captured Aleppo with little resistance from government troops.
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Fitton-Brown said that his former colleagues at the UN monitoring team for the Taliban 'have consistently argued that Assad would never be able to get the genie back in the bottle and that the majority who oppose him would eventually resurge.'
'This is why ISIS and AQ affiliated groups have stayed, regardless of how many have been arrested or killed.'
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Fitton-Brown said that his former colleagues at the UN monitoring team for the Taliban 'have consistently argued that Assad would never be able to get the genie back in the bottle and that the majority who oppose him would eventually resurge.'
'This is why ISIS and AQ affiliated groups have stayed, regardless of how many have been arrested or killed.'
Commentary:
Israel doesn’t need any more problems.
Is this Turks being Turks?
In my experience Turks see themselves as the victims of everybody 1,000 miles around.
Could this ne another AQ uprising funded by the Taliban?
It makes no difference if the “victimizer” is Muslim or not.
Who and what is the Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham?
Seems that The group was set up in 2011 under a different name, Jabhat al-Nusra, as a direct affiliate of Al Qaeda.
Additionally, there’s no way Trump is going to allow Syria to become one enormous ISIS caliphate. It will be destroyed from the air in the same way the last ISIS caliphate was. It will become a failed state and make the Middle East even more dangerous if such a thing was possible.
