Trained Syria rebels under Qaeda attack

U.S.-backed rebels say members of al-Qaida’s branch in Syria have launched an attack on their command headquarters, killing at least five fighters and wounding more than a dozen.

The Nusra Entrance in the meantime launched a video displaying one of many captured rebels saying that the lads within the faction often known as Division 30 have been educated in Turkey by U.S. officers and despatched again to Syria with cash and weapons.

However each the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Abdul-Jabbar Abu Thabet, commander of Aleppo Swords Battalion – a average faction that’s preventing each Syrian authorities forces and IS – stated the members of Division 30 have been educated by the united statesin Turkey. During the fighting, US-led coalition warplanes attacked the Nusra Front fighters, according to activists.

Abdurrahman and Marea said Division 30 had fewer than 60 fighters and that Friday the group lost five fighters and 18 others were wounded.

The Pentagon as of late Friday was nonetheless…

It was also instrumental in the demise of the U.S.-backed Hazzm Movement, which collapsed earlier this year after clashing with the Nusra Front in the northwest.

U.S. officials have insisted none of the newly trained fighters are among those abducted with Hassan, at a spot north of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

Division 30’s leaders expected to play a role in an ambitious new joint push by the United States and Turkey to help less radical Syrian insurgent groups seize territory from the fundamentalist militant fighters of the Islamic State.

Nusra Front said the rebels had entered several days before their capture, just after completing their training, “so the Nusra Front had to investigate”.

A U.S. army official appeared to disclaim any American connection to Division 30, saying on Friday that no member of a U.S.-backed insurgent faction had been kidnapped.

On Friday, the US-led coalition destroyed two bridges linking Albu Kamal to the Iraqi border, which the Observatory called “strategically important for IS s movements”.

One group that apparently did side with Division 30 was Jaysh Al-Thuwar, a coalition based west of Azaz that includes several Arab and Kurdish factions.

The statement also claimed al-Hassan’s capture and accused the U.S.-linked rebels of coordinating airstrikes on its positions in the area. The group said in a statement that it, too, had come under attack after Division 30 fighters had fallen back to areas under its control, and that it tried to assist Division 30 during the battle. “We, and the Sunni people in Syria, will not allow their sacrifices to be offered on a golden platter to the American side”.

While the Isis group has been the main focus of the coalition bombing campaign, Al-Nusra too has been targeted despite its fierce hostility to its jihadist rival.

More than 230,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests that descended into a civil war after a regime crackdown.