Syria's Al-Qaeda branch staged four suicide bomb attacks on army positions Sunday, leaving dozens of casualties, in a bid to cut off Idlib province from the coast, a monitoring group said. The attacks came a day after the Al-Nusra Front an**unced the creation of an arms factory. "Four Al-Nusra Front fighters carried out suicide attacks this morning, driving vehicles packed with explosives into four regime forces' checkpoints in the Jabal al-Arbaeen area near Ariha city," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The army controls the cities of Idlib and Ariha in Idlib province of **rthwest Syria, but much of the countryside is under rebel control.