Monitor says al Qaeda in Syria abducts five U.S.-backed rebels

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front abducted five more rebels believed to have been trained by the United States after raiding areas along the Turkish border in the past 24 hours, a war monitoring group said on Tuesday.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militant group was now holding a total of 13 men from "Division 30", a Syrian rebel unit that includes some fighters recently trained by the U.S. military.