Turkish-backed member killed in Syria’s Aleppo countryside
ALEPPO EASTERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – A member of the Turkish-backed Mu’tasim Division was killed yesterday, as he was targeted by unknown gunmen near Center roundabout in the center of al-Bab city in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Members of Mu’tasim Division deploy in several cities and towns north and east of Aleppo, including al-Bab, Sharan district, and Mare’ town, which is the division’s headquarters.
Unidentified individuals, who riding a motorcycle, fired directly at the division’s member Qassem Labbad, a settler from the countryside of Daraa in southern Syria, killing him immediately, a local source told North Press.
He was transferred to the National Hospital in the city to be handed over to his family in tandem with a military mobilization of the military and civil police in the city’s neighborhoods, the source added.
On March 12, residents of the city of al-Bab found an IED with a Syrian flag placed on near a school in the city center.
Since 2017, al-Bab city has been run by Turkish-backed armed factions the most notable of which are al-Hamza faction, Sultan Murad and Ahrar al-Sham.
Areas occupied by the Turkish-backed factions have been witnessing security chaos accompanied by frequent explosions, in addition to cases of abductions and corruption amid the failure of these factions to maintain security.