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Army Abandons Idlib to Defend The Defensible
[AnNahar] The Syrian government has abandoned Idlib to concentrate on regions deemed vital for its survival, a security source and monitor said Friday, allowing al-Qaeda to seize the province's last regime-held city.

Rebels now control the vast majority of Idlib province after al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
 Front -- al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate -- and its allies overran Ariha and surrounding villages on Thursday.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-31
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