Mohib Omar al-Jadaan was a

Free Syrian Army The Free Syrian Army (FSA; ) is a Big tent, big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition (2011–2024), Syrian opposition rebel groups in the Syrian civil war founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defe ...

colonel, who defected from the

Syrian Army The Syrian Army is the land force branch of the Syrian Armed Forces. Up until the fall of the Assad regime, the Syrian Arab Army existed as a land force branch of the Syrian Arab Armed Forces, which dominanted the military service of the fo ...

to the FSA. He was one of the first pilots to defect during the Syrian Civil War, after he refused to bomb targets in Atama. After his defection, al-Jadaan joined the rebel brigade 101 (part of the 7th Brigade). He was detained by

Islamic State group The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist organization and unrecognized quasi-state. IS occupied signi ...

for a short time. Mohib Omar al-Jadaan was killed by an explosive device in

Atme Atme (, also spelled Atma, Atima, Atmeh) is a town in northern Syria, administratively part of the Idlib Governorate, located north of Idlib and just east of the border with Turkey. It lies southeast of Deir Ballut, south of Jindires, northwest ...

on 5 January 2015, near the Turkish border.

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