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Islamist fighters seize Syria's Jisr Al-Shughour

An alliance of Islamist insurgents, including al-Qaeda's wing in Syria, captures the northwestern Syrian town of Jisr al-Shughour for the first time in the four-year-old conflict. Jillian Kitchener reports.