ALEPPO, Syria — The Sharan subdistrict of Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo opened March 30 the first pharmaceutical factory in the areas controlled by the Syrian opposition in northwestern Syria. The project managers seek to cover part of the area's needs of medicines, and they promise to increase production lines and drug varieties in the coming period.
Deputy head of the local council in Afrin Mohammed Sheikh Rashid; the deputy governor of Turkey's Hatay province, whose name was not mentioned; the head of the Afrin Health Directorate affiliated with the Syrian opposition's self-styled interim government, Ahmed Haji Hassan; and several legal figures in the area attended the opening.
