Banyas… Unknown gunmen open fire on leader of “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region”

ARK News… SOHR said that the “instigator” to Banyas and al-Bayda massacres and the leader of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region” militia, Ali Kayyali also known as “Miraj Ural”, has been subjected to a new assassination attempt, on Sunday.

The Observatory added that unknown gunmen opened fire on “Ural” on the road to Al-Baseet, while he was touring the Kasab area in Latakia countryside. The attack left casualties among the attackers and the escorts of the Syrian resistance militia’s leader. However, the fate of “Ural” has not to be known yet.

On July 6, 2019, SOHR sources reported that the “instigator” to Banyas and al-Bayda massacres and the leader of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region” militia, Ali Kayyali also known as “Miraj Ural”, was seriously injured in an IED explosion in his car on a road in Latakia countryside, as the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun” claimed.

While on September 6, 2018 Observatory sources said that uncertainty surrounded the circumstances of the explosion during which the “instigator” to Banyas and al-Bayda massacres and the leader of the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region” militia, Ali Kayyali also known as “Miraj Ural”, was injured. It is worth noting that one of Kayyali’s escorts was killed and two others were injured after an explosion hit them while they were traveling on Salanfah- Latakia highway. The nature of the explosion remained unknown whether being caused by the detonation of an IED by unknown individuals, as the “Popular Front for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region” claimed just before an opposition faction claimed responsibility of the attack, or caused by the rocket attacks on Salanfah at that time.

The Syrian Observatory, on April 1, 2016, concluded that the Turkish-born Leader of a regime-backed Syrian resistance militia and the “instigator” to Banyas and al-Bayda massacres in early May 2013, Ali Kayyali is also known as “Miraj Ural”, who is from Iskenderun region, had been disappeared for five days and his fate remained unknown.

It is worth noting that the “Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of Iskenderun Region” led by Kayyali, had participated in the battles of Kasab area and the northern countryside of Latakia in 2014 on the side of regime forces and loyalists.

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