- Tension has escalated in recent days in al-Bab city in Aleppo’s eastern countryside after a group of armed men belonging to the Hamza Division, affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA), raided the home of an official from the narcotics division of the police forces and national general security, also backed by Turkey.
- On Sept. 13, members of the security forces and military police affiliated with the FSA attacked and destroyed the cameras of journalists and photographers who were present in the vicinity of the military police headquarters in al-Bab, where the members of the gang who stormed the house were being detained.
- In light of this and the recent incident, it seems a standoff is brewing between the police’s narcotics division and some groups and leaders of the FSA who are involved in the drug trade, manufacture, and promotion.
<span>Tensions high between narcotics division, FSA factions in Syria’s al-Bab</span>
