Powerful rebel group the Islamic Front denied news of controlling Bab al-Hawa crossing border by the State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL), according to Zaman Alwasl source.
Al Mayadeen, Loyal satellite channel to Bashar al-Assad, aired news
purporting that ISIL took over the border crossing with turkey.
Since a fortnight, the Syrian
Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen Army, the Islamic Front has
been engaged in fierce fighting with ISIL in rebel-held areas.
The latest clashes broke out after
residents accused ISIL members of killing a doctor in Syria’s northern province
of Aleppo.
An ISIL spokesman said the group would
"crush" opposition fighters and warned that it considered members of
the opposition National Coalition and the military command of the Free Syrian
Army to be "legitimate targets."
ISIL has been accused of horrific abuses
in areas where it operates, and also of seeking hegemony by taking key roads
and checkpoints from its rivals.
Some Assad opponents have even accused it
of serving regime interests.
Syria's armed uprising began as a series of peaceful democracy protests 33 months ago but escalated into a full-blown civil war after Assad's regime launched a brutal crackdown on dissent.
The conflict is estimated to have killed around 130,000 people and displaced millions more.
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