robotnyck 8:15 am on September 16, 2013 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment Tags: Al Farouq battalion ( 28 ), al Qaeda ( 64 ), ISIS ( 82 ), ISIS vs FSA ( 3 ), SMC ( 16 ) #Syria #AlQaeda #ISIS - The end of the rebel alliance?Tension in Syria between rival rebel groups reached new heights as the US threatened to strike President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Self-described jihadist groups – some with alleged links to al-Qaeda – say they fear US missile attacks against Syrian military installations would also target them, and that the West was seeking to use moderate rebel factions to keep them in check – much as the US-funded “Awakening Councils” did in Iraq. The result is increasing animosity in Syria between jihadist groups and Western-backed fighters. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an armed group operating in Syria and a US-designated “terrorist organisation”, announced last week it would “go to war” against two other rebel groups in the town of al-Bab, in Aleppo governorate. ISIL’s leadership is based in Iraq and its ranks include many non-Syrian fighters. It has declared a “purifying maliciousness” military campaign to round up fighters from the al-Nasr and al-Farouq battalions, both operating under the loose banner of the Western-backed Supreme Military Council. The two groups had stormed the ISIL headquarters – based in a school – in an attempt to evict its fighters. ISIL had refused to comply with an agreement among the town’s rebel factions to stay away from education institutions and allow children to return to school in the new academic year. The raid led to a hours-long firefight, and both sides traded blame after several people were left injured. The situation in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, near the Iraqi border, is hardly any better. On Saturday night, deadly clashes in al-Bu Kamal erupted between jihadists and the Allahu Akbar Brigade, an opposition group credited with the capture of the city from Assad forces in November 2012 and which also operates under the Supreme Military Council. [.....] more in the article
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