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Late on February 11, unidentified gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint of the Suleyman Shah Division located on a road leading to the Turkish-occupied town of Qabasin in the northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, four militants of the faction were killed on the spot. Two more succumbed to their wounds the next day.
The Suleyman Shah Division is a key faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army, which rules Turkish-occupied areas in northern Syria, and a close ally of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham that occupies the northwestern region of Greater Idlib.
No group has claimed responsibility for the deadly shooting attack, yet. However, both ISIS and Kurdish forces were unofficially blamed.
It is also possible that the attack was the result of an ongoing power struggle between the Suleyman Shah Division and other Turkish-backed factions, which are known to be involved in criminal activities.
The attack came amid ongoing rescue operations in the northern Aleppo countryside, which was badly affected by the February 6 Turkish-Syrian earthquake. Hundreds of people were killed and many others are still missing in different parts of the region.
Overall, the security and humanitarian situation in northern Syria remains poor. Despite causing much destruction, the earthquake didn’t bring the conflict to a halt in the region.
Good! 6 less UNHUMAN GENOCIDALS’ JIHADICHIHUAHUAS!
Dead Muslims are good news, especially when they are killed by other Muslims.