(VOA News) Heavy fighting between rival rebel factions in eastern Syria has killed more than 60 fighters and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes in the past few days. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Nusra Front have been fighting over control of territory they previously took from Syrian government forces.
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