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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Fighting erupts between rival insurgent groups in Syria
2019-01-02
[Ynet] Clashes broke out between two powerful bad boy groups in northern Syria on Tuesday, leaving up to seven people dead in the most serious fighting in months in the last major rebel stronghold in the country.

The al-Qaeda-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
‐Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee‐and the The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
-backed Nour el-Din el-Zinki group blamed each other for triggering the fighting in the northern province of Aleppo.

Nour el-Din el-Zinki is part of a 15-member coalition known as the National Liberation Front
...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained soldiers Sultan Erdogan I “the much beloved” has jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here...
that has clashed with snuffies in the past. Other factions in the NLF have been sending reinforcement to rebel-held parts of Aleppo to back their allies against al-Qaeda-linked button men raising fears that the fighting will escalate.

According to activist collectives in northern Syria, both groups used heavy weapons, including tanks, in the fighting.
A teachable moment found here.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Turkey delivering for Trump?

I suspect Al Nusra finds it easier to fight Turkey’s sock puppets than to fight either the Kurds or the Syrian army, JohnQC.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-01-02 19:32  

#4  Seven dead? Who's playing Bugs Moran and who gets to be Scarface?
Posted by: AlanC   2019-01-02 12:38  

#3  Turkey delivering for Trump?
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-01-02 09:26  

#2  Boys will be boys...
Posted by: ed in texas   2019-01-02 07:06  

#1  
Posted by: 3dc   2019-01-02 01:01  

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