More than
100,000 civilians have fled the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor because of fierce
clashes between rival
jihadist groups, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday. The British-based monitoring group also said the
clashes between Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and the rival Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) had killed 230 militants in the last 10 days. ISIL was initially welcomed by some of the Syrian opposition, but its abuses of civilians and rebel forces sparked the backlash that begin this year.
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