Syria’s Jabhat al-Nusra, long a small but exceedingly effective front-line of the Syrian rebel movement, has seen massive increasing in the number of jihadists fighting under their banner.
Once estimated to be between 300-400 hardcore fighters, the al-Qaeda endorsed movement is now believed to have nearly 1,000 fighters, with large numbers of them coming from neighboring Iraq.
This is a direct consequence of Jabhat al-Nusra’s increasing control over the Syria-Iraq border, and their ties, virtually from inception, with al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), to the point that the US believes they are essentially the same group using two names.
Iraq has struggled to deal with this problem along their border, closing official sites but unable to do much to close the long, mostly desert, border with Syria, an influx that has bolstered AQI’s access to international weapons as well as al-Nusra’s access to seasoned fighters.
It is sad to realize how anti-war movement has become a tool to promote the interests of Ayatolahs in iran. I think some members of this movement have been sawyed by Press TV which is the source of clerical propaganda. iranians in iran do not buy lies of the regime. yet, the regime's lies have an audiance in the west. what a sad development for the so called democratic movement in the west
hasbara much? Iran has nothing to do with this story. Keep trying though…..
Take a break. They are feeding you too much propaganda for such a brain.
The US in Iraq, with all its resources, could not stop the same people from crossing the same border going the other way.
Iraq may not even want to, but they couldn't if they did want to.
Saudi oil money talks.