A rebel fighter stands atop a former base used by fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq
and al-Shah after rebel fighters recaptured it in al-Dana town in Idlib province.
In the town of Raqqa, northern Syria, liberal rebels have been driven out, and fighters from the Islamist groups Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) hold sway.
Many are foreign-born, and are promised brides by recruiters in return for fighting under the black flag of jihad.
A number of foreign women, sometimes accompanied by their children, have joined the jihadist groups, but men still greatly outnumber them, and some have started to "recruit" brides from the local community, seizing girls against their will.
One of these was 21-year-old Fatima Abdullah, from a tribal area outside Raqqa, whose brother joined ISIS, and promised her to a Tunisian fighter. She resisted, but her family backed the union, and she killed herself with rat poison.
Five activists confirmed the story to the Sunday Telegraph.
One local woman told the newspaper that she had gone to a jihadists' recruiting office to speak to a unit of female jihadists. Among them was a divorced Frenchwoman who had come to Syria with her 12-year-old daughter and four sons to join the militants.
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