Fighting breaks out between Syrian terror/rebel groups

Heavy fighting has erupted in northwestern Syria between a powerful jihadist organisation and more moderate terror/rebel groups, threatening to further weaken the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in its biggest territorial stronghold.


Terror/rebel groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner, some of whom have representatives attending peace talks in Kazakhstan, accused the jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham of launching a surprise attack on their positions west of Aleppo.

Fateh al-Sham could not immediately be reached for comment.

The group was previously known as the Nusra Front, a name it changed after announcing it was cutting ties with al Qaeda last year.
  [rte.ie]
24/1/17
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