29/12/2014 12:35
Nusra looks to maintain gains in Idlib
The Nusra Front is seeking to press ahead with military gains in northwest Idlib province in Syria by seizing Abu Dhuhur airport from regime forces and has given soldiers one week to defect from the facility, The Daily Star reported.
But Nusra’s hard-line behavior is also generating tension with local residents in Idlib, who demonstrated this weekend to demand the release of civilian detainees held by the Al-Qaeda affiliate.
According to pro-Nusra media outlets, the group issued its ultimatum to military personnel in Abu Dhuhur Saturday, and said that two soldiers from the complex managed to flee their posts and turn themselves over to the jihadis.
Several hundred military personnel are currently believed to be stationed at the airport.
Earlier this month, Nusra and its local ally Jund al-Aqsa overran the sprawling Wadi Deif military base, also in Idlib province, in one of the biggest military setbacks for the regime this year. Hundreds of troops were believed killed in the battles, while hundreds more managed to flee the site as the jihadis ended a nearly two-year-long siege of the base.
The seizure of Wadi Deif also came a month after Nusra and its allies clashed with a leading Free Syrian Army-affiliated group, the Syria Rebel Front, and chased it from its strongholds in rural Idlib in what observers said represented a significant push for influence by Nusra, in alliance with the powerful Ahrar al-Sham militia.
However, as Nusra establishes its control over civilian populations, its hard-line behavior is sparking unrest.
Residents of the village of Salqin staged a demonstration Saturday, demanding that Nusra release a number of civilian detainees.
Local, anti-regime activist groups posted video footage of the protest, as people shouted “Nusra out!” and “where are the detainees?”
Some activists remarked that some of the detainees being held by Nusra were among the “first” to demonstrate against the regime in the Syrian uprising.
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