Officials with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), one of the US-subsidized moderate rebel factions, warn that al-Qaeda faction Jabhat al-Nusra is gaining major ground in the area around the southern city of Deraa.
The Nusra Front has been directly challenging the FSA in Deraa, along the Jordanian border, capturing an FSA commander who has since confessed to deliberately throwing a battle over a nearby town to the Assad government to prevent Nusra from keeping it.
The FSA, of course, sees an easy solution in having the US give them even more money and better weapons to fight Nusra, though since they continue to lose ground to pretty much every other rebel faction the gravy train may be drying up.
The dominant rebel faction early in the civil war, the FSA has since been supplanted by myriad Islamist factions. Western nations looking to get in on the war have been courting groups like the Islamic Front as more likely proxies in recent days, reflecting their view that Islamist groups that are at the very least not formally al-Qaeda backed are the closest they can get to “usable” allies.
With a little help from their friends – America.
Would be nice if they did and then turned their new TOW weapons on the Americans and Saudi's
The FSA should realize their impending doom and join forces with their Syrian brothers in the Assad regime. Just take a look at Libya you sheeple. It amazes me that Arabs, who tend to think that there are conspiracies everywhere, do not care to see the long arm of American imperialism here. What is the promised fruits of their hard fought labor? To become American puppets? To have a democracy? And as for "Al Qaeda" fighters, whose orders do they think they are following? Allah's or the US State Dept? Sharia law will not make you terrorists in to heroes and there are no virgins waiting for you in hell.
Yeah, the Arabs are now openly sleeping with the infidels.
A classic example of Colonialism practiced by Britain and now the USG.
In Syria, the goal is to have these (factions) kill each other off, similar to
the US sponsored carnage taking place in Iraq.
Kissinger once boasted, 'Let (them) kill each other until the end of time…'