Western supported Syrian political group reacts to announcement -

The Damascus-based oppositional National Coordination Body (NCB) on Wednesday dismissed the merger of al-Qaida’s Iraqi branch and a Syrian rebel movement.

“It will not succeed … They will not find a supportive environment in Syria and will eventually have to pull out,” NCB head Hasan Abdul-Azim told Xinhua.

He was responding to Tuesday’s announcement by the Islamic State in Iraq that it had joined ranks with al-Nusra Front, a jihadist group bent on toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.


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