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Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate captured at least five more US-trained rebel fighters in overnight raids on a village in northwestern Syria, a monitoring group said on August 4. 

A US warning that it would use its air power to defend Pentagon-trained rebels against Syrian troops was met with scepticism by officials in Damascus on August 4.

The US-backed Division 30 was also left reeling when the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra front captured at least five of its members in overnight raids, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.    

Kurdish fighters seized a key town in northern Syria from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on July 27, cutting a supply lifeline from the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital, a monitor said.

The Turkish military are not targeting Syrian Kurds after Kurdish forces and a monitoring group said tanks shelled Kurdish-held villages in northern Syria, a Turkish government official said on July 27.

Three Spanish freelance journalists who traveled to Syria to report amid the country's long-running civil war have gone missing around the embattled northern city of Aleppo, a Spanish journalism association said July 21, the latest ensnared in the world's most dangerous assignment for reporters.

At least 11 civilians, among them three children, were killed on July 16 in regime barrel bomb attacks on a jihadist-held town in northern Syria, a monitoring group said.

At least 13 people, among them a child, were killed in Syrian government raids on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) -held town of Al-Bab on July 13, a monitor said.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters re-entered the Syrian Kurdish battleground town of Kobane on June 25, detonating a suicide bomb and battling Kurdish forces, a monitoring group said.

Syrian Kurdish fighters and rebel allies overnight seized a key base held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) north of its Raqqa stronghold, in a new blow for the jihadists.

Kurdish forces have seized control of a key border town from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), cutting a major supply line in the biggest setback yet for the jihadists in Syria, as the Turkish government clearly voiced its unease over the perceived efforts to unify Kurdish cantons in its southern neighbor.