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Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib, have infiltrated Turkish-occupied areas in the country’s northeastern region with help from a large faction backed by Turkey, Syrian opposition activists revealed on October 21.
At least 100 militants of the terrorist group were reportedly deployed in northeastern Syria in the first week of October. The militants entered the region disguised as members of the Suleyman Shah Division, which coordinated the deployment. Turkey was not apparently informed of the move.
Turkish-backed factions occupy a long strip of land in northeastern Syria, between the town of Tell Abyad in the northern Raqqa countryside and the town of Ras al-Ain in the northern countryside of al-Hasakah.
The Suleyman Shah rose to become one of the main allies of HTS in the last few months. In mid-October, the terrorist group invaded the Turkish-occupied area of Afrin in northern Syria in support of the Suleyman Shah Division that was at the time in a conflict with another Turkish-backed faction, the 3rd Corps.
With help from the Suleyman Shah, HTS used the conflict with the 3rd Corps to impose its control over Afrin. The terrorist group withdrew some of its militants from Afrin in the recent days. However, the area remains under the control of its security forces.
Both Russia and the United States have warned of HTS expansion in Turkish-occupied areas in Syria. After receiving much criticism for enabling the terrorist group, Ankara is now working to stabilize Afrin. HTS’s security forces are being quietly pushed out from the area by the Turkish military.
If the reports about HTS presence in Turkish-occupied areas in northeastern Syria are true, it will be a blow to Ankara’s credibility.
HTS’s expansion in northern and northeastern Syria threatens the safety of millions of civilians who live there. The terrorist group is apparently trying to establish its own de-facto state, similar to what its parent group, ISIS, did in the past.
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“Ankara’s credibility”????? Which plan of the Multiverse are you talking about? The one of oxymoron?
Those BEASTY STUFFS are not “terrorist backers” BUT A HERD OF INHUMAN GENOCIDAL TERRORISTS ITSELVES!
Turkey is 30% kemalist and 30% Muslim Brotherhood.
The jews and commies want Turkey to ghey out, and so commies will side with the sdf commies (antifa phaggots).
Hlitler, Saeed Nursi, Osama, and Muslim Brotherhood are slated to rise from the ashes in the form of Ottoman Turkiye, the land of unwalled villages, all of them unwalled. (Ezekiel 38, Ottoman Turkiye circa 1918).
So you filthy commies and filty jews can eat these facts or shove them up your ghey ass.
#RoyallyMountedGheynadianPolice