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Turkey Officials Confirm Pact With Saudi Arabia To Help Rebels Fighting Syria's Assad
AP | By DESMOND BUTLER
Posted: 05/07/2015 10:58 am EDT Updated: 3 hours ago
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A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues, said the administration is concerned that the new alliance is helping Nusra gain territory in Syria.
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The new Turkish and Saudi push suggests that they view Assad as a bigger threat to the region than groups like Nusra. Turkish officials discount the possibility that Nusra will ever be in a position to hold sway over much of Syria.

Under Turkish and Saudi patronage, the rebel advance has undermined a sense that the Assad government is winning the civil war — and demonstrated how the new alliance can yield immediate results. The pact was sealed in early March when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan flew to Riyadh to meet Saudi's recently crowned King Salman. Relations had been tense between Erdogan and the late King Abdullah, in great part over Erdogan's support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The Turkish-Saudi agreement has led to a new joint command center in the northeastern Syrian province of Idlib. There, a coalition of groups — including Nusra and other Islamist brigades such as Ahrar al-Sham that Washington views as extremist — are progressively eroding Assad's front. The rebel coalition also includes more moderate elements of the Free Syrian Army that have received U.S. support in the past.
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Die Nusra-Front gilt als Teil bzw. Alias der Al-Kaida. Wenn man sich vor Augen führt mit welchen Argumenten 2001 die US Regierung die Region ins Chaos stürzte ("Al-Kaida hier, Al Kaida dort, .."), dann sind die heute zu Tage tretenden Verflechtungen auf den Schlachtfeldern derart aufschlussreich, dass sie Verschwörungstheorien zwangsläufig Nahrung bieten.