In the vicinity of Sarmad, close to Aleppo, militants of the “Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham” group detained two ISIS cell leaders, who, according to HTS information sources, were among the field commanders. The captured Abu Muhammad Idari was named as administrator of administrative affairs, and Abu Dawood Iraqi turned out to be the leader of the ISIS in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.
In addition, an arms depot belonging to the Islamic state was discovered in the Sarmada area. There were a lot of samples of various weapons, including pistols with silencers, submachine guns Beretta M12, Heckler & Koch MP5, American M-16 rifles and M-4 carbines and much more. In particular, the warehouse was stored components for the production of improvised explosive devices, as well as the already manufactured “suicide bombs”.