A batch of 75 rebels newly trained by US and coalition forces in Turkey to fight the so-called “Islamic State” terrorist group have entered northern Syria, a monitoring group told AFP on Sunday.
The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has released a number of U.S.-trained rebels it captured earlier, but kept the group's commander, Colonel Nadim al-Hasan, in custody.
Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate captured at least five more “U.S.-trained rebel fighters” in overnight raids on a village in northwestern Syria, an activist group said Tuesday.
Al-Qaeda's Syria branch has posted a video showing its captured members of a US-trained rebel force accused of aiding US-led airstrikes against its fighters.
Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front launched an offensive Friday on the headquarters of a new US-formed “rebel group” in the country's north, leaving at least 11 dead, a monitor said.