The Al-Qaeda linked “Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) stormed the headquarters of the Free Syrian Army’s “7th Brigade” (Liwaa Al-Saaba’) and captured a large cache of weapons and supplies in the Idlib countryside.
While the weapons the Al-Nusra Front confiscated are currently unknown, there is some fear that they captured their anti-tank TOW missiles; these were supplied by the United States to the “moderate” rebels in Syria.
The U.S. Government has been hesitant to deliver powerful weapons to rebel groups in Syria due to the growing presence of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham (ISIS) linked groups.
Tensions between the two groups has recently escalated in the Idlib Governorate following an Al-Nusra Front offensive that forced the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) to withdraw all of their forces to Turkey.
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