A state of tension ignites between the major factions of the Syrian North as a result of an attack by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on headquarters of the National Liberation Front

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: tension is prevailing both northern and north-western sectors of Aleppo countryside, between the major factions operating in the area, as a result of storming a headquarters of the National Liberation Front in Kafr Hamra town, by an armed group intersected sources said that it is of members of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where they seized the contents of the headquarters, and arrested members who were located in it, along with surrounding another headquarters of the National Liberation Front by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, in Hayyan town in the northern countryside of Aleppo, which ignited a state of tension between the both parties, amid resentment in the area, along with fears of escalating the disagreement between the both parties and developing it to a fighting between them, where this tension comes after carrying out simultaneous operations by the both parties against tens of cells of the organization and tens of those who are accused of “cooperating with the regime in order to reach reconciliations”.

While it is noteworthy that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 1st of August 2018, that it monitored a unity by 5 military formations, operating in the Syrian North and have been displaced to it, under the name the “National Liberation Front”, after meetings and consultations between representatives and commanders of Hayyaat Tahrir Syria, Suqour Al-Sham Brigades, Jaysh Al-Ahrar, Damascus Gathering, announcing themselves as the “core of the incoming Jaysh Al-Thawra”, while this unity announced its full military structure, and this merger comes more than two months after a previous merger under the same name, where the SOHR monitored in late May 2018, 11 factions announcing the formation of the “National Liberation Front”, where Al-Sham Corps, the 1st Coastal Division, the 2nd Coastal Division, the 1st Infantry Division, the Free Idlib Army, Jaysh al-Nasr, Jaysh al-Nukhba, the Second Army, Shuhada al-Islam (Darayya), Liwa Al-Huriyah, Division-23, announced the formation of this army in one statement announcing the launch of this new group, and the statement said: as a part of our duty to seek to unit the word of the rebel factions, and our awareness of the danger, risks and pain which Al-Sham territory suffered from, as a result of the division of theses factions, and as a correction to the past failures, and for seeking to cooperate with our brothers, in the coming responsibilities, the factions which signed this statement sought to form a new gathering under the name the “National Liberation Front”, and now we announce the birth of this new formation, and we invoke Allah to be a project that includes all revolutionary components that believes in the goals of our revolution and are devoted to its constants and seek to achieve them”.