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Syria Qaeda posts video of 'capture' of US-trained rebels
by Staff Writers
Beirut (AFP) Aug 2, 2015


US says may take 'additional steps' to defend Syria allies
Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 2015 - The White House said Monday said it is willing to take "additional steps" to defend US-allied fighters in Syria, warning the regime of Bashar al-Assad not to impede their actions.

Spokesman Josh Earnest said Syria "should not interfere" with operations by US-trained forces, warning that "additional steps" could be taken to defend them, raising the prospect of strikes against the regime.

Earnest said that Assad has not so far impeded the actions of US-backed groups, which include a 54-strong unit inserted into the Division 30 rebel unit in Aleppo province in mid-July.

While the force has not come under attack from the regime it has been targeted by Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate the Al-Nusra Front, prompting US strikes.

The Pentagon has denied claims that US-trained members of Division 30 had been captured.

IS detains four journalism students in Iraq: watchdog
Baghdad (AFP) Aug 1, 2015 - The Islamic State group has detained four journalism students in Mosul on charges of leaking information from the jihadist bastion to Iraqi and media organisations, a media watchdog said Saturday.

The four were taken from their homes in different parts of the northern city late Friday, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO), an Iraqi organisation, said in a statement.

Mosul activists and a former security official confirmed to AFP that four Mosul University students had been detained and taken to an unknown location.

A journalist who was arrested for similar reasons in June, Jala al-Abadi, was executed in mid-July.

According to JFO, IS holds at least eight journalists from the province of Nineveh, of which Mosul is the capital.

Al-Qaeda's Syria branch has posted a video purportedly showing its capture last week of members of a US-trained rebel force it accuses of aiding US-led air strikes against its fighters.

The Pentagon denied on Thursday that any graduates of its training programme for moderate rebels had been captured in Syria.

But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that eight members of the 54-strong Division 30 unit inserted into Aleppo province in mid-July were being held by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front.

The video released by Al-Nusra on its YouTube account on Saturday appears to show at least some of the captured rebel fighters.

It depicts five men walking through a field in a straight line, hands behind their heads, supervised by one hooded man and one armed man.

One of the apparently detained men tells the camera he was recruited by the US, through intermediaries, to receive training in Turkey for a month and a half.

He said the trainees were each given an M16 assault rifle and some cash to "fight Al-Nusra" in Syria.

A hooded man identifying himself as an Al-Nusra member said the jihadist group had "cut the hand of the West and the Americans in Syria" by capturing the men.

"Their collaboration with the West is clear," he said, accusing the detained men of helping US-led air strikes against Al-Nusra positions.

While the Islamic State group has been the main focus of the coalition bombing campaign, Al-Nusra too has been targeted despite its fierce hostility to its jihadist rival.

In an online statement it published on Friday, Al-Nusra called Division 30 "agents of American interests and projects in the region."

The same day, it launched an offensive against Division 30's headquarters.

In a statement on Facebook, the US-trained rebel group said five of its fighters had been killed and 18 wounded in the battle for the base.

Under the cover of US-led air strikes, the remaining forces withdrew to the Afrin area of Aleppo province, which is held by Kurdish militia.

At least 25 Al-Nusra fighters were killed, the Observatory said.


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