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2017-07-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Rival groups clash in Syria's rebel-packed Idlib
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[AlAhram] Clashes have broken out in northwestern Syria between two of the most powerful Lion of Islam groups there raising fears of widespread violence in the rebel-held province of Idlib, the groups and an opposition monitor said Saturday.
The fighting between the ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham
...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...
and the al-Qaeda-linked Hay'at Tahrir al Sham -- Arabic for Levant Liberation Committee -- that is also known as HTS, are the first serious acts of violence since both sides reached a truce in February. Wider festivities between the two former allies could affect their fight against  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
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Lord of the Baath...
's forces who have been gaining ground over the past year under the cover of Russian Arclight airstrikes.
Idlib has taken on greater significance in Syria's civil war as opposition fighters and turbans head, or are driven, there from the country's central and northern regions. Bordering The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Idlib has welcomed thousands of bully boyz who left the country's largest city of Aleppo when it fell to Assad's forces in December in the government's biggest victory since the crisis began in March 2011.
Hundreds of others also headed to Idlib this year from suburbs of the capital Damascus and the central city of Homs as part of population transfer deals with the government.
Ahrar al-Sham said in a statement Saturday that the al-Qaeda-linked Levant Liberation Committee is sending reinforcements to the town of Saraqeb and the Jabal al-Zawiya region in preparation for an attack. It accused HTS of acts of "tyranny."
The Ibaa News Agency of HTS accused Ahrar al-Sham of setting up checkpoints and detaining one of its commanders and his bodyguard, adding that HTS removed the checkpoints later by force.
Ibaa quoted an HTS military commander, who was identified as Mouawiyah al-Hashimi, as saying that the two groups agreed to solve the crisis in accordance with Islamic law. He added that Ahrar al-Sham issued its statement about reinforcements after the attempt to solve the latest crisis.
"Our first choice is to resort to Islamic law and solve the problems away from arms and bloodletting," the Ahrar al-Sham statement said. "If the (HTS) command insists on its tyrannical acts .... the movement (Ahrar al-Sham) is ready to repel injustice."
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the festivities late Friday were concentrated near the village of Tel Touqan. It added that after the festivities, Ahrar al-Sham briefly cut water supplies to the scenic provincial capital of Idlib that is mostly controlled by HTS.
The lashes come at a time when Ahrar al-Sham is trying to market itself as a moderate rebel group and has been recently raising the main opposition banner -- black, white and green with three red stars in the middle.
HTS is a coalition led by Fatah al-Sham Front that was formerly known as the Nusra Front. The group announced last year it was changing its name to Hay'at Tahrir al Sham and had cut all contacts with al-Qaeda to market itself as a Syrian group.
Fatah al-Sham Front and the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) holy warrior group are considered terrorist organizations by the international community. Still, the al-Qaeda-linked HTS enjoys the support of the local population in northwestern Syria where many see it as a powerful faction confronting President Bashir al-Assad's army and his allies. 
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