Jonathon Burch: Syria

Syria: BEIRUT/ANKARA - Kurdish fighters have seized control of a Syrian town on the border with Turkey and are battling Islamist rebel groups linked to al Qaeda for control of oilfields in the northeast of the country. , according to Reuters. In southern Syria, attacks by rebels on gas and fuel pipelines that supply power stations caused widespread electricity outages, Syria's official news agency said. By Erika Solomon and Jonathon Burch The fighting is further evidence that the conflict between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces that has engulfed Syria since early 2011 has splintered into turf wars that have little to do with ousting him. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.