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A statement posted online said Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam, Suqour al-Sham, Liwa al-Tawhid, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Sham and the Kurdish Islamic Front had agreed to a “gradual merger”.
It said the new Islamic Front will be an “independent political, military and social formation” to topple the Assad regime and build an Islamic state.
Syrian troops Tuesday fully recaptured the strategic town of Qara in the northern countryside of the capital Damascus.
The army recaptured Qara, which is located in the al-Qalamoun Mountains north of Damascus, after eliminating the last “terrorist pockets” there, Xinhua reported citing the state-run SANA news agency reported.
Two suicide bombers – one driving a rigged car and the other on a motorcycle with an explosives belt – attacked Iran’s Embassy in Beirut Tuesday, killing at least 25 people including an Iranian diplomat and wounding more than 150, security sources said.
The attack, confirmed by Lebanon’s military prosecutor as the work of suicide bombers, was claimed by an al-Qaeda-linked group and is the latest in a spate of deadly bombings linked to the war in Syria.
The leader of one of Syria’s most prominent rebel units died early Monday of shrapnel wounds sustained during shelling by government troops last week, his group said.
The death of Abdul-Qadir Saleh, founder of the Tawhid Brigade, was another blow to the rebels, reeling from a series of recent battlefield losses to President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces.
War continues between rival jihadists groups in Syrian regions subtracted by control of regular forces.
Six rebels of Al Hijra Ila Allah group have been executed by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) qaedists militiamen in Latakia province.