The Syria had spent last month training a specialist group of Syrian rebels to fight against ISIS on the ground. The group, called Division 30 , was finally put to work over a year . No sooner than it had started its mission than a local al-Qaida affiliate, the al-Nusra Front , kidnapped 50 to 60 of its members, including the commanding officer. The rest of the division have now decided that they will not fight against al-Nusra and that they are against US attacking al-Qaida groups in al-Nusra .
The US had spent over a year training a specialist group of Syrian rebels to fight against ISIS on the ground. The group, called Division 30, was finally put to work last month. No sooner than it had started its mission than a local al-Qaida affiliate, the al-Nusra Front, kidnapped seven of its members, including the commanding officer. The rest of the division have now decided that they will not fight against al-Nusra and that they are against US attacking al-Qaida groups in Syria.