Shelling of Salah Eddin Mosque

On Friday, February 8, it was reported by Syrian state media that rebel forces in Aleppo shelled Salah Eddin/Salahuddin/Salah al-Din mosque in al-Ashrafiah neighborhood with mortars, killing its Imam, Sheikh Abdullatif al-Jamili. According to the sources, the attacks originated in Bani Zaid neighbourhood not too far away northwest.

Backing the official reports by SANA and associates, aligned sources like breakingnews.sy add that the Syrian Army used the neigbourhood as gathering point to start an attack on Bani Zaid where they say militants have staged attacks on the surrounding areas from for quite some time.

The usual FSA-aligned opposition sources have not much to add - quite vague on what SOHR calls "a preacher" and LCC doesn't even mention - but confirm that clashes took place.

Complicating the developing picture are Kurdish reports of clashes between their forces and the SAA in the same quarter at the same time, with no mentioning of Kurds by either the official or the FSA sources and no mentioning of the dead Imam by the Kurds.