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Islamists, secular rebels battle in Syria over Nusra Front’s call for Islamic state | McClatchy

Islamists, secular rebels battle in Syria over Nusra Front’s call for Islamic state | McClatchy

Two Syrian rebel groups – one seeking an elected civil government, the other favoring the establishment of a religious state – are battling each other in the city of Tal Abyad, on the border with Turkey, in a sign of the tensions that are likely to rule this country if the government of President Bashar Assad falls.

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