U.S. Air force now acting as Al-Nusra and Al Qaeda Air force? (INN).
Coalition aircraft hit Islamic State forces battling Syrian rebels including Al Qaeda's Nusra Front.
US-led aircraft bombed Islamic State group (ISIS or IS) fighters battling rival rebels including Al Qaeda loyalists in northern Syria overnight, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described the raids in Aleppo province as intervention on the side of the rival rebels, even though they include forces that have previously been targeted by US-led strikes.
"The coalition carried out at least four strikes overnight targeting IS positions in the town of Suran," the Britain-based group said.
"It's the first time that the international coalition has supported non-Kurdish opposition forces fighting the Islamic State," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Like IS, Al-Nusra is blacklisted as a "terrorist organisation" by Washington.
Despite sharing a jihadist ideology, Al-Nusra and IS are fierce rivals, with IS seeking to expand its self-declared caliphate in territory it holds in Syria and Iraq.
Al-Nusra pledges allegiance to Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri, but has for now confined its ambitions to Syria and has allied with conservative Islamist groups fighting the regime and IS. Read the full story here.
More evidence U.S. policy in Syria has become more pro-al Qaeda: http://t.co/l3n4J8tjUB
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) June 7, 2015
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