{"id":48994,"date":"2020-10-30T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=48994"},"modified":"2020-10-30T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T11:21:56","slug":"second-turkish-backed-armed-opposition-group-leader-killed-in-nagorno-karabakh-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/48994\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Turkish-backed armed opposition group leader killed in Nagorno-Karabakh battles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AZAZ, Syria (North Press) &#8211;<\/strong> Local sources reported that a leader in one of the Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition groups, Hussein Abo, was killed on Wednesday in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region in an Armenian military bombardment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abo is the second leader of the Hamzat group to be killed in less than a week in the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adel Shahir, the commander in chief of the central forces in the Hamza group, <a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/48894\/\">died a few days ago along with four other militants<\/a> during the ongoing battles Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress alignleft wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-north-press-agency\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"glGBnIZgqI\"><a href=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/48894\/\">Prominent Syrian opposition leader killed in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Prominent Syrian opposition leader killed in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting&#8221; &#8212; North press agency\" src=\"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/48894\/embed\/#?secret=bdmulqtpkb#?secret=glGBnIZgqI\" data-secret=\"glGBnIZgqI\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abo is one of the first leaders who participated in mobilizing mercenaries to fight in Azerbaijan in coordination with Turkey, according to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abo is from Kaljabrin town east of Azaz city and was responsible for several groups in the Hamza Division, according to informed sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hamza group is active in the opposition-held areas in northwestern Syria, and committed many crimes and violations against civilians in occupied Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) and Afrin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Turkey is continuing to recruit Syrians to fight in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by offering financial incentives under the pretext of protecting public bases and installations there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The recent escalation between Azerbaijan and Armenia is the most violent since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Reporting by Khaled Al-Hassan<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local sources reported that a leader in one of the Turkish-backed Syrian armed opposition groups was killed in the disputed #NagornoKarabakh region in an Armenian military bombardment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-developments","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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