{"id":65020,"date":"2021-09-21T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=65020"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T14:35:35","slug":"sdf-welcomes-us-strike-on-al-qaeda-official-in-syrias-idlib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/65020\/","title":{"rendered":"SDF welcomes US strike on al-Qaeda official in Syria\u2019s Idlib"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) \u2013 <\/strong>On Tuesday,Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) head of Office of Media and Information Farhad Shami welcomed the US strike on an al-Qaeda official in northwest Syria\u2019s Idlib region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Monday, the Pentagon announced that it targeted a high-ranking official of al-Qaeda in an airstrike near Idlib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe efforts to combat the terrorism of ISIS and its cells cannot work by targeting it in northeast Syria alone; its roots in the other Syrian areas, especially the ones controlled by Turkey, must be eliminated,\u201d Shami said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe always demand that terrorist cells be pursued in northwest Syria; Idlib, Afrin, Azaz, and other areas where terrorist cells are clearly active,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He warned that Turkish-held areas in Syria may become a \u201csafe environment for terrorists,\u201d in which al-Qaeda affiliates Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party are active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 17, the SDF Media Center published a report on the movements of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra Front) in the Afrin region, which is controlled by Turkish forces and Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere are serious indications about Turkish plans to reintegrate members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham into the ranks of the so-called Syrian National Army under different names and descriptions to deceive the world and prevent the Global Coalition from targeting them,\u201d Shami added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SDF official revealed their demand for their partners in the Global Coalition to \u201cpressure Turkey to prevent it from turning the occupied areas into a reservoir for assembling terrorist militants and transferring them to the rest of Syria and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reporting by Hosheng Hassan<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An #SDF official praised a US strike on an al-Qaeda target in #Syria\u2019s #Idlib, adding that the Global Coalition must work to prevent Turkish-held areas of northwest Syria from becoming safe havens for terrorist groups. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":65021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-military-developments","category-syria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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