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The Pentagon is considering an overhaul of its botched training program for Syrian rebels against the extremist group the Islamic State (IS), a New York Times report said on Monday.
The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front has released a number of U.S.-trained rebels it captured earlier, a monitor group reported on Sunday.
The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front announced Monday its withdrawal from frontline positions against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Aleppo to protest against Turkey's intentions to impose a buffer zone in that area, according to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Syrian army on Thursday killed the general military commander of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front during a "qualitative" operation in the northwestern province of Idlib, the state news agency SANA reported.
At least 20 fighters of the al- Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed and 30 others wounded Wednesday by the Syrian troops in a rugged region north of the capital Damascus, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
A total of eight fighters of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed during clashes with the Syrian government troops in the country's southern province of Daraa on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
Washington is facing a difficult situation after the Iraqi wing of al-Qaida network docked with the Nusra Front radical group in Syria, a Syrian state-run paper said Thursday.
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