A powerful jihadist group inspired by Al-Qaeda has opened a new battlefront with Iraqi security forces that could see it try to push into Baghdad, officials and analysts warn.
Syria's warring sides are due to meet Saturday in Geneva in a last-ditch effort to save deadlocked peace talks as fears grow the entire process could collapse.
Tehran. YJC. -- Al-Qaeda has disavowed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), whose members have been locked in deadly clashes with Syrian rebels, according to a statement posted on jihadist websites.