Watch Syrian Regime 'Relentless' in Attack on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
TIME Exclusive: Meet the Islamist Militants Fighting Alongside Syria’s Rebels -- Rania Abouzeid, Time
As foreign jihadists rally around the cause of Syria's rebels, TIME meets two factions of Islamist fighters seeking to overthrow the Assad regime and set up a political state in their image
The al-Qaeda flag was propped up in a barrel painted with the three-starred Syrian revolutionary banner in the middle of the road at a makeshift checkpoint between the northern Syrian towns of Binnish and Taftanaz in Idlib province. The checkpoint was unmanned — not especially surprising, given the dry mid-afternoon heat and the lethargy sometimes brought on early in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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My Comment: The above PBS video is revealing on how intense the fighting is in Syria. As for the Al Qaeda influence .... the same thing was said about Libya during their civil war last year. Fortunately .... the Libyans were overwhelming hostile to the radical message that Al Qaeda was promoting when the war ended .... my hope is that the same will happen in Syria.
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