The major Syrian Islamist rebel group Ahrar al-Sham said Thursday that six other rebel factions had merged with it in northwestern Syria, in response to a major assault on these factions by a powerful extremist group.
Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly allied with al-Qaeda as the Nusra Front, launched the attack on a number of Free Syrian Army groups this week, accusing them of conspiring against it at peace talks in Kazakhstan this week.
Ahrar al-Sham, a conservative Sunni Islamist group, has sided with the FSA groups, saying Fateh al-Sham had rejected mediation attempts. The Ahrar statement said that any attack on members of the movement was tantamount to a "declaration of war", and it would not hesitate to confront it.
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