...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
said on Wednesday it had been in talks with an Iranian delegation regarding the Syrian city of Zabadani but that the discussions had been halted.
Any such talks between the conservative Sunni Islamist group and Shi'ite Iran would be highly unusual. Iran backs Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters fighting on the ground in Syria's four-year-old insurgency.
The statement said Ahrar al-Sham had objected to what it called Iran's "determination" to empty Zabadani of civilians and fighters. Syrian government and Hezbollah forces have been attacking rebel-held Zabadini.