Fighters from the Al-Nusra Front, Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch, hold a position as they fight against forces loyal to the regime on December 19, 2014 in the southern countryside of Syria’s northern city of Aleppo. Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria seized dozens of tanks and armoured personnel carriers from the army when they took two regime bases this week in the northwestern province of Idlib, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. AFP PHOTO / AMC / FADI AL-HALABI