Subscribe to VICE News here: bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News 2013 was a bad year for the Syrian rebels. While the mainstream rebels struggled to defend their frontlines from the resurgent Assad regime, a renegade al Qaeda offshoot, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), launched a series of assaults on the formerly-dominant FSA brigades from behind, capturing their strongholds in rebel-held northern Syria and executing their commanders. Now the rebels are fighting back. A coalition of former FSA brigades, funded by Saudi Arabia and rebranded as the Syrian Revolutionaries Front (or SRF), launched a surprise offensive against ISIS in the spring of 2014, in a campaign supported by both the Saudi and US governments. VICE News was the first western TV crew into Northern Syria for 6 months, embedding with the SRF as they reimposed their rule over the country's northwestern Idlib province. What we witnessed was a brief window into a complex and morally ambiguous conflict with no end in sight. Read Aris Roussinos' article "Running With the Wolves of Syria" on vicenews.com news.vice.com/articles/in-photos-running-with-wolves-of-the-syria Check out the first dispatch from "Syria: The Long War" www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSiUWPAdSWw&index=2&list=PLw613M86o5o5yH6kBijEo0nRrjDSXiSKP Check out the VICE News beta for more: vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: vicenews.tumblr.com/

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