Al Qaeda-linked militants were on the verge of capturing a strategic border gate between Turkey and opposition-controlled northern Syria, late Wednesday night. Hardline Islamist fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) made their advance toward the Turkish border, hours after they attacked and pushed more moderate Syrian rebels out of the nearby Syrian town of Azaz. That rebel faction has controlled Azaz and the Syrian side of the Oncupinar-Bab el Sal-ama border crossing, with Turkey for the past year after it wrested control of the town from the government of Bashar al-Assad.
Al Qaeda group captures town near Syria-Turkey border, eyes key crossing
