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The Grand Mufti of Damascus, Adnan Al-Afyouni, was killed Thursday evening as a result of an explosive device exploding in his car, according to what was announced by the official Syrian News Agency, “SANA”.
“SANA” quoted the Ministry of Endowments as saying that Al-Afiouni died “when an explosive device planted in his car exploded” in the town of Qudsaya, northwest of the capital.
According to our correspondent in Syria Assaf Abboud, Al-Afiouni played an effective role during the Syrian conflict in reconciliations between opposition militants and government forces in Damascus countryside and its towns.
The Syrian authorities did not directly accuse certain parties over the opium assassination.
And in September 2016, the mother of Al-Afyouni was the prayer attended by Syrian President Bashar Al-Aswad in a rare public appearance to celebrate Eid Al-Adha in Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus.
And in September 2016, the mother of Al-Afyouni attended a prayer that he attended in a rare public appearance to celebrate Eid al-Adha in Daraya, on the outskirts of Damascus, after the last opposition militants were evacuated from it under a surrender agreement.
He told the worshipers at the time that Daraya “is living proof for all Syrians that the only option available to you is reconciliation and abandoning the fighting.”
Explosions have become rare in and around the Syrian capital since government forces expelled the last of the opposition militants and jihadists from its outskirts in 2018.
In another development, it was reported that leaders of the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al-Sham were killed by an unknown plane raid on their site in the village of Jakara in the northern countryside of Idlib.
According to opposition sources, the strike killed at least 12 people.
It is estimated that the war in Syria has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced millions from their homes since the beginning of 2011 with the suppression of anti-government protests.
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