Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) has split more or less with every other rebel faction inside Syria, but they are united with the others today along the Syria-Lebanon frontier, where a new Syrian Army offensive has the rebels uniting to try to keep a key weapons smuggling zone open.
Syrian forces have been advancing on the town of Yabroud, the last of the rebels’ major strongholds near Lebanon. The troops recently took the village of Sahel, and are backed by Hezbollah fighters.
The supply routes from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley into Syria have been a thorn in the Syrian military’s side for quite some time, and now seems to be on the brink of severing those routes with the retaking of Yabroud.
Significant fighting has already been reported on the outskirts of Yabroud, and rebels reported some barrel bombs dropped in the area. The Syrian commander of the offensive said morale was high and they believe it is only a matter of time until they retake the town.
Am really begining to lose respect for antiwar as u keep referring to al Qaeda a group that al Qaeda leadership said is not a part of it. For the sake sensationalism of course a la the corporate mefia. But where antiwar is mistaken is ur average reader is more educated than ur cnn or fox`s. I wonder who are libertarians with in the Syria war? Regime i bet.
Just yesterday the Saudis tyrant regime had announced that: "all foreign fighters needs to leave Syria".
What they mean by "foreigners", if they mean English, French, Chechnya or their own "foreign" rebels, needs to be answered!
And today, Al-Queada the supported and paid Saudis-Wahhabis mercenaries in Syria joining other Syrian "rebel" to terrorize more of Syrian and Lebanese people., what a coincident.
Why refer to the group as al-Qaida in Iraq, when it has not gone by that name for years?
Jason, the groups name is "the Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant", not al qaeda in iraq since 2006