Topic: Syrian Terrorism Continues: Ahrar al-Sham names new leaders after blast  (Read 1503 times)

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An ultraconservative Syrian rebel group says it has named new leaders, a day after an explosion killed nearly a dozen of its top members.

A spokesman for Ahrar al-Sham said Wednesday in a video statement posted online that Hashem al-Sheik Abu Jaber would assumed overall leadership of the group, while Abu Saleh Tahan would fill the role of military chief.

The two take charge of a once-powerful group decimated by the deaths of nearly all its leading members, including longtime chief Hassan Aboud, in an explosion that struck a high-level meeting late Tuesday in northwestern Syria .

It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast, and there even were conflicting reports on the nature of the explosion. Ahrar al-Sham said the men were killed in a car bombing.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2014/Sep-10/270181-syrian-ahrar-al-sham-names-new-leaders-after-blast.ashx#ixzz3Cu2FV8Hc

 

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