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PRO-WESTERN rebel groups sounded the alarm yesterday over the massing of al-Nusra Front militants near the Bab al-Hawa border into Turkey.
The move by al-Nusra forces follows its overrunning of towns and villages held by Western-backed groups in Syria’s north-western Idlib province.
It appears that the front is intent on controlling a key cross-border supply line along which the pro-Western groups receive arms and reinforcements.
Al-Nusra fighters are now ensconced in Sarmada, just four miles from Bab al-Hawa.
Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that al-Nusra fighters were gathering in Sarmada but there was no indication of an advance on the crossing.
Bab al-Hawa crossing is currently held by the Islamic Front alliance.
Recent advances by al-Nusra Front forces represent a sharp blow for the Western-backed Syrian Revolutionaries Front, headed by Jamal Maarouf, and Harakat Hazm, a group armed and funded by the US.
