Abu Omar Dabah al-Dik a senior military commander in the Sham Legion was killed on July 18 in a Russian airstrike on the Kurd Mountains in the northern Lattakia countryside.
Pro-opposition activists revealed that the same airstrike claimed the lives of three other personnel of the Sham Legion.
Abu Omar Dabah al-Dik, Click to see full-size image.
Abu Omar was reportedly the Sham Legion’s general military commander in the coastal region. In 2018, he survived an assassination attempt with an improvised-explosive device (IED) in northern Lattakia.
The Sham Legion is one of the National Front for Liberation (NFL) coalition key members. The coalition was formed in mid-2018 with direct support from Turkey.
The elimination of Abu Omar is a major blow for the NFL, which is activity supporting Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other terrorist groups in Greater Idlib.
