1,069 killed in Syrian rebel infighting, activists say

Two weeks of fighting between an Al Qaeda-linked group and other rebel forces in Syria has killed more than 1,000 people, an activist group said Thursday, as clashes raged between the rival factions in a northwestern town.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of activists around Syria, said that the fighting in northern and eastern Syria killed 1,069 since the clashes began Jan. 3.

The fighting pitting the Al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other groups are the most serious among rebel forces since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.








The fighting came a day after the "Islamic State" commander in Saraqeb who was a Belgian citizen of Algerian origin was killed along with another foreign fighter when they were ambushed by a rival rebel group.