Ahrar al-Sham

Ankara has strictly refuted charges by neighboring Syria that Turkey assisted Islamist rebels staging an assault on Idlib, a provincial capital that opposition fighters seized over the weekend.

Any intervention into Idlib by Turkey is ?untrue,? said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said at a press conference on March 31.

A monitoring group said the Syrian army lost control of a second strategic base in the northwestern province of Idlib to coordinated assaults by Islamist groups on Dec. 15.
      

Some 14,000 militants of the Syrian rebel group have abandoned Aleppo, while its commander has fled to Turkey, according to Turkish security sources The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city, a ranking Turkish security so

Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) targeted the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, an organisation that tracks violence in the Syrian civil war reported on Nov. 5.