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                  Islamist Fighters Withdraw from Syrian Town

   by VOA News

   An Islamic extremist group is reported to have begun pulling out of a
   rebel-held area of northern Syria, following an ultimatum from rival
   jihadi militants.
   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighters from the Islamic
   State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) withdrew from the town of Azaz and
   surrounding areas.
   This week, the rival al-Nusra group, which is affiliated with al-Qaida,
   said it would force ISIL out of the area if it did not accept mediation
   by Islamic clerics following the death of a senior Islamist commander.
   The deadline expires Saturday.
   ISIL is an al-Qaida breakaway group that took control of the town,
   located near the Turkish border, last year from other Syrian opposition
   fighters.
   Months of fighting between various Islamist rebel groups in Syria has
   killed thousands of fighters and further splintered the already divided
   Syrian opposition, which is trying to overthrow President Bashar
   al-Assad.
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