叛军中不乏基地组织领导的沙拉菲派极端组织，比如Al Nusra，它们被证实与政府及其盟友 — — 伊朗代理人真主党和伊朗革命卫队一样残暴。
The Al Qaeda-led and Salafist extremist groups in the rebel forces, such a Al Nusra, have proved to be just as vicious as the government and its allies, the Iranian proxy Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.