{"id":117704,"date":"2024-10-16T17:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=117704"},"modified":"2024-10-16T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T17:05:33","slug":"russian-airstrike-kills-hts-drone-chief-in-idlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/117704\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian airstrike kills HTS drone chief in Idlib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IDLIB, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> A Russian airstrike on Wednesday killed the chief engineer of drone aviation for the Turkistan Islamic Party in Idlib Governorate, Northwest Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A military leader from the al-Fatah al-Mubin Operations Room, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), told North Press that the Russian airstrike led to the killing of engineer Abdul-Ilah al-Hashimi, a Palestinian national, and two of his assistants.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Russian airstrike targeted a drone manufacturing facility in the town of Ain al-Beida, north of Latakia, on the Syrian coast. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The source added that al-Hashimi oversaw more than 30 specialists from the Turkistan Islamic Party and was responsible for drone operations targeting Syrian government forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Turkistan Islamic Party includes jihadists that arrived from their homeland in China with their families in 2013 and settled in the coastal mountains and the western countryside of Idlib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In April, unknown gunmen <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/112771\/\">killed engineer Yasar Abu Dia\u2019<\/a>, a Palestinian national, who worked in engineering suicide drones for the Turkistan Islamic Party in Idlib Governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Tuesday, the Russian Reconciliation Center at the Khmeimim Air Base in Syria announced that the Russian Air Force targeted three training sites for &#8220;terrorists,&#8221; referring to HTS, as well as a warehouse and two workshops for manufacturing drones in Idlib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exclusive sources had previously told North Press that the HTS has a factory in the town of Ain al-Beida which was formerly a school and converted into a <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/111180\/\">factory for manufacturing drones<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>By Hani Salem<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDLIB, Syria (North Press) \u2013 A Russian airstrike on Wednesday killed the chief engineer of drone aviation for the Turkistan Islamic Party in Idlib Governorate, Northwest Syria. 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