{"id":57396,"date":"2021-04-11T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T10:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=57396"},"modified":"2021-04-11T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T10:40:10","slug":"hts-arrests-leader-in-guardians-of-religion-releases-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/57396\/","title":{"rendered":"HTS arrests leader in Guardians of Religion, releases another"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>IDLIB, Syria (North Press)<\/strong> &#8211; Local sources in the western countryside of Aleppo, northwestern Syria, said that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) arrested a leader in the al-Qaeda affiliated Guardians of Religion Organization, an armed group operating in northwest Syria\u2019s Idlib governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sources added that on Saturday, the Authority\u2019s General Security Agency took Abu Ahmed al-Libi from his home in the town of al-Sahhara, west of Aleppo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They indicated that the town witnessed a women&#8217;s demonstration against HTS after the arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abu Ahmed al-Libi holds Libyan nationality. He previously worked with HTS in Aleppo, eventually splitting from it and joining the Guardians of Religion about a year and a half ago, according to the source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, sources close to the Guardians of Religion said that HTS released Abu Urwa Kansafra after he was detained for eight days in its prisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the beginning of April, HTS has arrested about 15 leaders and members of the Guardians of Religion, including a sharia [Islamic law] judge in the organization, Abu Dhar al-Masri, who was arrested on April 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization is considered a branch of al-Qaeda in Syria, and one of the founding members of the Rouse the Believers Operations Room which later merged with the Fathbatu Operations Room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The organization was established in February 2018 by jihadist fighters and clerics who abandoned groups like Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham when the latter groups attempted to distance themselves from al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Bara\u2019 al-Shami<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDLIB, Syria (North Press) &#8211; Local sources in the western countryside of Aleppo, northwestern Syria, said that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) arrested a leader in the al-Qaeda affiliated Guardians of Religion Organization, an armed group operating in northwest Syria\u2019s Idlib governorate. 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