Nusra Front looms to imminent clashes with West-backed Hazm

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda's Syria wing Nusra Front said in statement issued on Thursday that efforts to solve discords with West-backed Hazm movement reached a dead-end, what looms to an imminent clash, activists said.

The statement assured that the second powerful Islamist group in Syria after The Islamic State is planning to retaliate over Hazm assaults on its fighters in Idlib and Aleppo provinces.

Three months ago, the Nusra Front expelled Hazm Movement and Syria's Revolutionaries Front from Idlib countryside. But the situation still on a hot tin and infighting may erupts any moment, observers say

More than 220,000 people have been killed since the conflict in Syria erupted in March 2011.