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    Syrian rebels gamble on Turkish alliance to fight Kurds and Assad

    Ankara is retraining a core of fighters to wage its own war against Isis and Kurdish expansion
    by Kareem Shaheen in Hatay Jan 27, 2018 3 minutes
    Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in the town of Azaz on Friday. Up to 15,000 such fighters are now reported to be trained and ready. Photograph: Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images

    The young rebel from Idlib rolled down his sock to reveal a deep, blackened gash, a grim memento of weeks as an Islamic State captive. The man who tortured him in that prison was on his mind when he heard that Turkey was offering military training to 500 men, and decided to sign up.

    Like all the recruits to Ankara’s latest experiment, he was a seasoned anti-Assad rebel with battlefield experience but no military education. Turkey promised to drill and discipline them, creating the nucleus of a new Syrian rebel army.

    “They told us: ‘You

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