BEIRUT (Reuters) - A rogue Iraqi offshoot of al Qaeda is now killing more rival al Qaeda fighters every week in Syria than President Bashar al-Assad's forces as infighting intensifies among opposition gunmen.
Clashes this year between al Qaeda's official Syria wing, the Nusra Front, and the franchise's disowned offspring, The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), have killed hundreds of fighters and displaced tens of thousands of civilians.
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