Four months after his father killed in Coalition airstrike | HTS arrests Abu Zar al-Masri’s son and sharia advisor of “Huras al-Din” organization

Reliable sources have informed the Syrian Observatory that a security unit of HTS arrested a person named “Abu Hourrera”, the son of “Abu Zar al-Masri”, who was a sharia advisor affiliated with the Jihadi “Huras al-Din” organization and was killed by an International Coalition airstrike, west of Idlib on October 15, 2020.

Abu Zar al-Masri’s son was arrested in Ma’rat Misrin area and his personal phone was confiscated.

On October 16, reliable sources informed the Syrian Observatory that an Egyptian commander named “Abu Zar al-Masri”, a Moroccan named “Abu Yusuf al-Maghribi”, and a child who was with them, were all killed in an American drone strike which targeted their vehicle on the western outskirts of Idlib city yesterday.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, “Abu Zar al-Masri” previously served as an “Islamic preacher” and a member of “Majlis al-Shura” (Consultative Council) in the “Huras al-Din” organization, and supervised a sharia institute for small age groups within the organization before joining “al-Shura Council”.While Abu “Yusuf al-Maghribi” served as the general security officer of “Huras al-Din”.

The two commanders were former al-Qaeda members, before joining the ranks of “Huras al-Din”, and they did not get on well with the leader of HTS, according to Observatory sources.