Jihadists and Secular Activists Clash in Syria
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/world/middleeast/syria-war-developments.html?ref=middleeast&_r=1&&pagewanted=all
The tensions had been simmering for months in the northern Syrian town of Saraqib. Civilian antigovernment activists had complained of rebel fighters who needlessly destroyed a milk factory and treated residents disrespectfully. A growing contingent of jihadist fighters from the ideologically extreme and militarily formidable Nusra Front was suspicious of the activists’ secular, nonviolent agenda.