BEIRUT: Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate seized control of most of Idlib on Saturday after government forces pulled back to bases in the heart of the main northwestern city, a monitoring group said.
Al-Nusra Front and its allies "control the majority of neighbourhoods in Idlib, apart from government and security buildings," Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP.
Street fighting raged through the night after the rebels entered the government-held enclave on Friday evening.
"Regime forces have retreated and are now in their barracks," Abdel Rahman said.
Idlib province, which borders Turkey, is a bastion of Al-Nusra, with only Idlib city itself remaining under government control.
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