Al Qaeda affiliate Nusra Front evacuates bases in northwest Syria: fighters

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, has evacuated its bases in populated parts of the Idlib countryside in northwest Syria after U.S.-led forces carried out strikes on the group, some of its fighters said on Wednesday. Another Syrian Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham, has also ordered its followers to evacuate bases, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group said. The Observatory confirmed the Nusra withdrawal. (Writing by Alexander Dziadosz, editing by John Stonestreet) Read More http://ift.tt/1r8KRwa