(Zaman Alwasl)- The Islamic Front, Syria’s main rebel group, has merged its factions in Aleppo in four sectors in order to unify efforts in war-torn province, rebel sources said.
This step aimed to have the same formation of regular armies, especially the rules of military discipline, what can make progress in the battlefields, rebel commander told Zaman Alwasl.
IF is planning
to have the same formations in other Syrian provinces, source says.
Armed Islamist groups have become the most powerful force in the three-year-old uprising against 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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