Reminder :
The 2013 Latakia offensive (called The Descendants of Aisha, Mother of the Believers by #Salafist #jihadists, and the Operation Liberation of the Coast by the Free Syrian Army ( #FSA) and the so called "moderate rebels" :
Al-Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL)
Al-Nusra Front
Free Syrian Army
Syrian Islamic Front
Ahrar ash-Sham
Ansar al-Sham
Syrian Turkmen Brigades
Junud al-Sham
Harakat Sham al-Islam)
was a campaign during the Syrian Civil War launched by rebel groups led by Salafi jihadists in the #Latakia Governorate. The stated aim of the offensive was to conquer al-Haffah city, but government supporters assumed conquering Mount Nabi Younes was more likely the real aim.
A calculated side effect may have been to spark more sectarian violence in #Syria by carrying out a sectarian attack on an #Alawite-majority area.The offensive began in early August 2013
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The 2013 Latakia offensive (called The Descendants of Aisha, Mother of the Believers by #Salafist #jihadists, and the Operation Liberation of the Coast by the Free Syrian Army ( #FSA) and the so called "moderate rebels" :
Al-Qaeda
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL)
Al-Nusra Front
Free Syrian Army
Syrian Islamic Front
Ahrar ash-Sham
Ansar al-Sham
Syrian Turkmen Brigades
Junud al-Sham
Harakat Sham al-Islam)
was a campaign during the Syrian Civil War launched by rebel groups led by Salafi jihadists in the #Latakia Governorate. The stated aim of the offensive was to conquer al-Haffah city, but government supporters assumed conquering Mount Nabi Younes was more likely the real aim.
A calculated side effect may have been to spark more sectarian violence in #Syria by carrying out a sectarian attack on an #Alawite-majority area.The offensive began in early August 2013
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