SYRIAN-KURDISH peacemaker Hevrin Khalaf was executed by a faction of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), new evidence suggested today.

A BBC investigation suggests that the 34-year-old political leader was deliberately killed by the rebel group Ahrar al-Sharqiya, which fights for the SNA.

Hevrin, the Future Syria Party’s (FSP) secretary general, was shot 20 times in an ambush in north-eastern Syria on October 12 during a Turkish-led offensive to push back the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) from its borders.