Syria's Kurds mobilize to fight al-Qaida groups
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BEIRUT — A powerful Kurdish militia said Tuesday it is mobilizing against al-Qaida-linked rebels in northeastern Syria after a Kurdish opposition leader was killed in the area.
The fight between the Kurds and the extremists has become a war within a war in Syria's oil-rich region. Clashes between Kurdish gunmen and members of al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant over the past weeks left dozens of gunmen dead from both sides.
The fighting claimed a prominent casualty Tuesday, as a car bomb killed Kurdish leader Issa Hisso, said the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, the most powerful faction of the ethnic group in the region.
"We condemn this ugly criminal act and we promise the martyr and his comrades that we will stand idle," the party said in a statemen
Frågan om detta bara är tomt prat eller om Kurderna på allvar kommer att strida emot Al-Nusra. Jag har uppfattat det som att det endast har varit sporadiska strider tills nu.