IDLIB, Syria, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A human rights group says Islamic State forces teamed with a rival faction -- al-Qaida-backed Nusra Front -- to push moderate rebels from a province in northwestern Syria.
The move illustrates a change in the normally rocky relations between the two Islamic extremist groups. Al-Qaida, which felt Syrian operations should be left to the Nusra Front, broke ties with IS after the rapidly expanding group grew beyond its control.