Syrian rebels in opposition-held areas engaged in fierce battles with Al-Qaeda-linked elements in what activists say is growing resistance to the jihadists' brutal grip in many places.

Elsewhere in northern Syria, an unidentified group seized five people working for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from a house, the Paris-based humanitarian organisation said.

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