The Turkey-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) sent fighters to a town in Idlib province of Syria which was seized by a rival group from regime forces.
The NFL joined hands with Hay’et Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) beat back government troops from a town HTS had recaptured earlier this month.
The HTS seized the town of Kfar Nabuda in Idlib province on Tuesday with the help of the National Liberation Front (NLF), a conglomeration of rebel groups supported by Ankara. The town had been retaken by the Syrian government in its recent assault.
More than 80 combatants were killed in the battle for the town, according to the UK-based war monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Mostafa Maarati – spokesman of the Al-Ezzah Army, which took part in the Kfar Nabuda operation and is part of the NLF – said it assisted HTS to protect the rebel-held territory from President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, a “common enemy”.
NLF has clashed with HTS, formerly the al-Qaeda wing in Syria, over ideological differences and also over territorial control. HTS took over numerous NLF-run towns and villages but united with its adversary to oppose Assad’s army.
A senior commander with a moderate rebel group in the NFL said despite their differences rebel groups are coordinating in a “battle for survival”.
“We cannot say they merged, but the people of the liberated north were attacked, their homes were destroyed, and their towns were occupied, so all of them had to defend their land together,” he said.
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