WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA) : Fighting Spreads to Atma, Idlib

 Faced with what they see as a shared Kurdish threat, moderate Free Syrian Army rebels fought in Atma alongside the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an al Qaeda affiliate controlled by foreign jihadists, only a week after the two factions fought each other in another border town. – Activists in Atma said Free Syrian Army units had brought heavy guns into the town and started blasting positions to push back Kurdish militiamen who had advanced to within sniper range in the surrounding hills. They said Kurdish tank shells fired from distance were hitting Atma, while Arab rebel heavy artillery was hitting Jindaris.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/26/uk-syria-crisis-kurds-idUKBRE98P14Y20130926#Syria

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