Al Qaeda in Syria Attacks Western-backed Rebels

The Syrian arm of al Qaeda attacked a Western-backed rebel group near Aleppo on Thursday. The attack was revealed by the rebel group and an organization monitoring the civil war. It threatens one of the few remaining pockets of the non-jihadist opposition. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said The Nusra Front seized positions from the Hazzm movement west of Aleppo, Hazzm is one of the last remnants of non-jihadist opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in northern Syria, much of which has been seized by the Nusra Front and Islamic State - an offshoot of al Qaeda that controls a third of Syria. http://bit.ly/1BuB03y http://bit.ly/1fJ5yqZ