Syrian residents flee their homes following clashes between opposition fighters and forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the Adra area, east of Damascus,in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA on January 3, 2014. REUTERS/SANA/Handout via Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebel factions battled fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) across north-west Syria on Saturday in the heaviest clashes between President Bashar al-Assad's opponents in nearly three years of conflict, activists said.
The apparently coordinated strikes against the ISIL come after months of increasing resentment of the powerful al Qaeda-linked group, whose radical foreign jihadis and have alienated many ordinary Syrians in rebel-held territory.
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