(Zaman Alwasl)- Main rebel groups in Deir Ezzor city pledged in statement issued Sunday to patronize each other as to avoid infighting and to have one command room to fight Bashar al-Assad's forces.
Media activist, preferred anonymity, say to Zaman Alwasl that rebel factions in Syria’s oil-city are facing an increasing pressure by al-Qaeda affiliated al-Nusra Front to fight the State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
“The new alliance may avoid rebels the ongoing fighting between ISIL and al-Nusra Front,” activist said.
More than 4000 people, mostly fighters, died in fighting between rebels and ISIL, since three massive rebel alliances declared war against ISIL in January.
Deir Ezzor considers as a key conduit for ISIL to send weapons and fighters from Iraq into Syria.
Armed Islamist groups have become the most powerful force in the three-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, who has long portrayed himself as the defender of a secular order in Syria.
Syria's conflict, now in its fourth year, has killed more than 162,000 people, a third of them civilians, and caused millions to flee.
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