BEIRUT: Syrian rebels have united to kill and capture dozens of jihadists in a new “revolution” against an al-Qaeda affiliate they accuse of worse abuses than the hated President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Saturday.

Three powerful rebel alliances have taken on fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during two days of fierce combat in Aleppo and Idlib provinces that Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said it “fully supports.”

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