Kurdish forces are extending their control in northeastern Syria; a member of the Free Syrian Army’s military council said the FSA would fight to keep the Kurds from dividing Syria. Rebel forces currently hold areas in the north near the Turkish border and a corridor along the Euphrates river to Iraq, while the regime controls the coastal enclave of Latakia as well as much of central and southern Syria. Two suicide car bombers detonated in Hama. Rebels are reportedly collaborating with al Qaeda affiliates Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in detaining, torturing, and killing Kurdish citizens in Aleppo province; activists say families of the victims are burying their dead secretly for fear of retribution.
