Moderate rebels say the Syrian president is secretly working with a rogue al Qaeda group in the country’s brutal civil war. But are Sunni jihadists really in bed with the Assad regime?
Wars can make strange bedfellows out of erstwhile enemies but if Western-backed Syrian rebels are to be believed, the Syrian conflict has thrown up one of the strangest ever wartime alliances, featuring Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and jihadists such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the militant Sunni leader of the Islamic...
