Afrinpost-Special
Afrin Post correspondent was able to monitor the presence of an Islamic State doctor in the center of the occupied Kurdish Afrin. He has been working for a long time in the Qanbar Hospital, which some of its sections were invested by the settlers and its name was changed to “Afrin Private Central Hospital” in Azadi Field /Old Bazaar.
Ghassan Jamous, a specialist in orthopedic surgery, has opened a clinic next to the Sharia High School in the old Afrin neighborhood.
In 2015, Jamous officially declared his boycott of Islamic militias known as the Free Army and pledged allegiance to the terrorist organization ISIS.
Several media outlets reported on the transformation of the extremist doctor, including Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper, which, in a report dated 7 October 2015, confirmed the news of Jamous joining the areas of the terrorist organization in the eastern region of Syria under the title “The military campaign in Syria is pushing a doctor from the moderate opposition in Idlib to join ISIS in Raqqa.”
Ghassan Jamous, 39, comes from Taibet Al-Imam area in the northern countryside of Hama. He graduated in 2004 from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Aleppo, specializing in orthopedic surgery.
Following the fall of the last stronghold of the terrorist organization in the town of Baghoz on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River, by the SDF in March 2019, credible sources of Afrirpost confirmed the arrival of takfiris from ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood organizations into the occupied Afrin region, where they were welcomed by the Turkish occupation and its militias.
At the beginning of February 2018, the Independent newspaper confirmed that Turkey had recruited and trained Islamic State militants to participate in the “Olive Branch” invasion launched against Afrin in order to eradicate “Self-Administration”. Those who belonged to ISIS fled from various eastern regions, fearing they would be arrested and held accountable for crimes committed during the so-called Caliphate.
The Independent newspaper quoted Faraj, 32, a former militant in the extremist organization, who is from the city of “Hasaka”, that most of the militants involved in the war on Afrin, are “ISIS”, explaining that Turkish military leaders are trying to change the previous ways ISIS militants, such as suicide bombers and car bombs, have relied on them not to use them in their fight against Afrin, and others do not believe that Ankara is cooperating with the terrorist organization.
In September 2018, The Region published an article indicating that civilians in Afrin were subjected to threats similar to those used by ISIS. It noted that Islamic militias called the Free Army, the National Army, use ISIS tactics to threaten civilians.
The newspaper recalled the belief that Turkey used former ISIS members in the ‘Olive Branch Operation’, and that in the video recordings of the militants’ olive branch, they sang ISIS songs and questioned civilians about religious practices to determine their faith, and threatened to behead the ‘infidel Kurds’.
These practices confirm warnings raised by local authorities and activists that Turkey’s invasion and occupation of Afrin will create a new and safe haven for extremism in Syria.
