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Syrian group Ahrar Al-Sham mourns Taliban leader
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 03 - 08 - 2015

BEIRUT — A conservative rebel group in Syria, which has contested its hard-line image in Western newspapers, mourned the death of the leader of the Taliban in a statement distributed online on Saturday.
Ahrar Al-Sham, which is widely described by analysts as an ultra orthodox group, expressed “deep condolence” in the Arabic statement for Mullah Omar, who Afghanistan said on Wednesday had died more than two years ago.
It said the Taliban leader had “reminded us of new meanings of jihad and devotion,” and had taught “how to build the (Islamic) emirate in the hearts of the people before it becomes a reality on the ground”.
The statement comes after Ahrar Al-Sham wrote opinion pieces last month — one published by the Washington Post and another by Britain's Daily Telegraph — in which it presented itself as a Syrian national force, distancing itself from cross-border extremist groups. It also said it would protect minorities in Syria.
Ahrar Al-Sham is part of a military alliance in Syria that includes the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front. The alliance, known as the Army of Conquest, captured nearly all of the northwestern province of Idlib from Syrian government forces earlier this year.
Ahrar Al-Sham tried to differentiate itself from al Qaeda in the recent editorials but also warned the West against expecting a Sunni Muslim political movement “according to a Western liberal standard”.
Western states, alarmed by the rise of the Nusra Front and Daesh (so-called IS), have been reluctant to support Islamists in Syria's four-year war, instead backing factions grouped loosely under the banner of the Free Syrian Army. However, these factions have been increasingly eclipsed by Islamist groups.
One of the issues that has complicated Western cooperation with Ahrar Al-Sham has been the links of one of its late leaders, Abu Khaled Al-Soury, to Al-Qaeda. — Reuters


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