There is also an emerging threat in allowing radical fighters into northern Syria.
They thought we were the reason that these radical fighters had come to our country.
They want to maintain the support of their most radical fighters without losing the funding of the European Union.
General Idris's group was intended to be the moderate pathway for military aid to the Syrian opposition, but he has been increasingly marginalized as aid has remained limited and more radical fighters have grown stronger on the battlefield.
The report, "Separating the Taliban from Al Qaeda: The Core of Success in Afghanistan," says attacks on Taliban field commanders and provincial leaders will leave the movement open to younger, more radical fighters and will give Al Qaeda greater influence.
While the army is holding its ground around the capital's perimeter, Abu Ghraib is seen as a weak point, and sympathy for the radical fighters is growing here, residents say, because of the heavy-handed actions of Shiite militias.
Radical fighters staged a strategic retreat from a key Syrian town on the Turkish border last Friday amid growing tensions with rival rebel factions that threaten to erupt in a new war.
It is not an army of 70,000, it is 70,000 armed men who are fighting Assad and who are not radical fighters, but that is not enough to say there is an army of 70,000 people who would support that effort".
And 49 members of Turkey's consulate in Mosul, taken hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants in early June, have yet to be freed.Western governments are increasingly twitchy about the influx of radical fighters into Syria along Turkey's "jihadist highway".
In a video circulated by the Observatory, a man with his face obscured, identified as another Free Syrian Army commander, is heard to say ruefully that when the radical fighters first arrived in the town, "we warmly welcomed them — we opened our homes and even participated in battles with them".
