Prominent activist shot dead in Syria

Awar monitor and Syrian activists are reporting that masked gunmen in the country’s rebel-held northwestern province have killed a prominent figure in Syria’s opposition, who was also a sharp critic of Islamist militants.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says gunmen fired yesterday at Raed Fares and colleague Hammoud Al Juneid in Kafranbel, a town in the south of Idlib province.

The two were injured and died wounds.

Fares gained fame during the Syrian uprising because he supported opposition protests even when the conflict took a violent turn.

He also started a local radio station that defied Islamist militants who gained influence in the province. seriously of their