Hundreds of Syria rebels pledge loyalty to Qaeda groups
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Hundreds of rebels have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda affiliated forces in northern and eastern Syria, activists and Islamist sources said on Friday, strengthening the group's control in the region.
Not only individual fighters, but entire units have joined the small but powerful al-Qaeda linked groups - the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) - in recent days, according to sources inside Syria. (Reuters)
