Iraqi Police: Tikrit Prison Fugitives Directing Aleppo Clashes with Damascus

The 15 al-Qaeda members who fled Tikrit's prison a few months ago have now become warlords in Syria, masterminding and leading terrorists and armed rebel groups in clashes with government troops, an informed Iraqi police official disclosed on Saturday. 15 members of the Al-Qaeda group who recently escaped from the central prison of Tikrit in Iraq are leading the armed clashes in Syria against President Bashar Al-Assad's government, a senior Iraqi police official, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Arabic Buratha news agency.