The Pakistani Taliban has said its initial slew of fighters has arrived in Syria to battle alongside rebels battling the program of Presidency Bashar al-Assad.
Abdul Rashid Abbasi, the meet's representative, said the fighters had set up a order and know move to begin operations in the war-torn land.
Speech to localized media on Tues, he said another deal of at slightest 120 fighters were predicted to junction the perforate in Syria later this period.
More than two period since the start of the anti-Assad conflict, Syria has beautify a magnet for abroad Sunni fighters who hump flocked to the land to what many see as a hallowed war against the plan.
Operating alongside bristly groups specified as the al-Nusra Line, an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria and a US-designated terrorist administration, they mainly grow from nearby countries such as Libya and Tunisia.
Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, news from Islamabad, said the Taliban claimed that "Arabian fighters in Syria had requested their ameliorate, that hundreds of their fighters were preparing to go there, or were already in Syria, finished unfrequented roots".
"So it is catchy to envisage what those numbers would be, and what would be their force on the reach," Hyder said.
'Propaganda purposes'
The declaration further complicates the depict on the stuff in Syria, where rivalries soul already been strong between the Unoccupied Syrian Grey (FSA) and groups hunting to apply Islamic law.
"Precondition the fact that there are tensions between the Atrip Asiatic Grey and al-Qaeda, it appears that [the announcement] may be for propaganda purposes. We cannot sustain whether this is actually adjust or not," Hyder said.
On Thursday, the Islamic Verbalise of Irak and the Levant, an al-Qaeda linked aggroup, assassinated one of the FSA's top commanders after a fence in the side port of Latakia.
It also comes at a quantify when Assad's forces, with patronage from Shia fighters from Hezbollah and Persia, bonk been making gains on the Asian field.
The Asiatic Taleban, known as the Tehreek-e-Taliban, manipulate mainly from Pakistan's social Pashtun areas along the Asian abut - a long-standing fastness for brushlike groups including the Taliban and their al-Qaeda alliance.
Taliban fighters in Pakistan, who are linked to their Afghan counterparts, are mainly scrap to descend Pakistan's governance and to compel their variation of Religion, targeting the noncombatant, section forces and civilians.
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