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IS, Al-Qaeda Reach Accord in Syria
(AP-Washington Post) Leaders from the Islamic State and al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, met in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work together, a high-level Syrian opposition official and a rebel commander said. The groups also agreed to open up new fronts against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria. During the meeting, IS offered to send fighters to help the Nusra Front in an assault it launched last week on Western-backed rebels from the Hazm Movement near the town of Khan al-Sunbul in northern Syria. Nusra did not need the assistance because Hazm decided not to fight - 65 Hazm fighters defected to Nusra.