Syrian rebel groups unite to fight IS

ISIS fighters

More than 20 members of the opposition parties, including the Christian rebel commander, the Isis and unite in the fight against the forces of President Bashar al-Assad to stop what it called a historic agreement has been signed.

Contracts for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and facilitated by staff from the Washington-based Syrian Emergency Task Force arrived in Turkey on Thursday for a meeting. Two U.S. Congress members and ISIS Congress hand combat training moderate dissidents signed off just days after President Barack Obama's call in the final negotiations, sat on.

Under the agreement, the Supreme Military Council of the Syrian moderate Muslim rebel group fighting under the Christian Syriac agreed to form a coalition with the military council. Obama announced the new policy was the first meeting between the Syrian rebels and members of Congress.

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