Five civilians were killed today in clashes between Syrian rebel groups and jihadists in the northwestern province of Idlib, a monitoring group said.
Rebel Islamist groups Ahrar al-Sham and Nureddine al-Zinki launched an operation Tuesday against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an alliance dominated by jihadists once linked to Al-Qaeda, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "It's a war to wipe out" the jihadists, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. HTS is the main force in Idlib but the Islamist groups, which on February 18 announced a merger under the name of Syrian Liberation Front, have captured 26 localities in this week's fighting, the Observatory said.
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