http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/isis-j...-iraq-1.2675184

"These people use different names, so if one is defeated the other can claim victory," says Col. Mohamed Saleh of the Syrian army as he surveys the wreckage of a factory in which 27 of his soldiers were killed. "They call themselves ISIL, al-Nusrah Front, Deach, but they are all the same."

These very same jihadis — which the Syrian forces have been defeating — are now surging towards Baghdad, some of them, perhaps, the very same men who fought Bashar al-Assad's regime in northern Syria. Here in Aleppo, the rebels trying to hold on to this massive industrial zone — turned into a fortress with underground tunnels built by al-Qaeda insurgents — killed themselves with suicide belts when Col. Saleh's men attacked. This is the kind of intense dedication to the cause that Iraq is now facing.


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A Syrian soldier descends a set of stairs in June 2014 to inspect the al-Qaeda-constructed tunnels beneath an industrial park in Aleppo, which the group known as ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, were using as a base. (Nelofer Pazira / CBC)