Report: Syria Rebel Infighting Kills 51 Fighters

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

Updated: April 10, 2014 - 5:35 PM

BEIRUT — Fierce infighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria killed more than 50 fighters Thursday, an opposition group said, while government shelling left at least four teenagers dead in a town in the country's west.

The rebel infighting took place around the town of Bukamal in the oil-rich Deir el-Zour province near the Iraqi border between rebels from the al-Qaida breakaway group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and fighters of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and other Islamic groups. The two sides have fought each other for months other over territory they previously captured together from President Bashar Assad's forces.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 51 died in the rebel-on-rebel fighting Thursday. The numbers could not be independently confirmed and calls to activists in the area went unanswered.

It was the latest episode in a relentless cycle of blood and violence that has gripped the country since March 2011, when the uprising against Assad's rule began.

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[cosmicone]

1. Kind of predictable

The rebels never had any discipline and only dreams of Sharia/Jihad and Sunni domination to power them.

[uhnope]

2. What else does Putin want us to think?

[jamzrockz]

3. Not exactly

The same rag tag group of wahhabi cave men took over Libya and had the US had allowed themselves to be used again to strike Syria with jet fights like they did in Libya, they would have had their second country to do with it what they please.

The infighting would still be there but nobody will hear about it cos the war would have been over and the western media will go back to covering other irrelevant news stories.