Turkey faces gathering storm in Syria al-monitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from al-monitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A group of factions affiliated with the Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army have formed a new alliance known as the Syrian Liberation Front intended to end the power struggle between Turkey’s allied factions in northern Syria.
Turkey is seeking to downplay the jihadi threat that its troops face in Idlib, the last Islamist stronghold in Syria, opting to turn the spotlight to the Kurds instead.
5 Syria opposition groups unite as Syrian Liberation Front middleeastmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from middleeastmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
small minority responsible for a lot of destruction. consider the group that calls itself victory front. they re jihadists with links kw in iraq and since last year they claimed responsibility for more than 600 attacks in syria then you have groups including the islam brigade which is in damascus and there are also two main rebel alliances in syria, the syrian liberation front or slf, a coalition of 20 islamist groups and they have a strong presence in areas of syria including the north, south ands with, the other main alliance is the syrian islamic front which is composed of groups that have pushed for religious state in syria so now let s take a look at the big picture. this map from the nonprofit institute for the study of war show the regions in yellow, in green, the area rebels hold while extremists control everything in dark green.