Opposition groups who created the Army of Fatah to capture Idlib are claiming that the Syrian regime is carrying out air strikes in civilian areas and are using chlorine gas. Although no independent institution or agency was able to confirm the information, the fighters and activists shared videos and photos, showing the regime's brutality. Some civilians have already fled from Idlib, which was home to 165,000 people, with the fear of regime reprisals. The activists said more people are expected to leave the city as the regime's war planes pounded the central areas at night. Opposition fighters claimed that the Assad regime, allying with the Iran-backed Abu Fadl Abbas group, dropped at least eight barrel bombs.The city's capture was said to have revitalized the revolutionary spirit of the clashes as Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), opposition groups and armed Kurdish factions also fight each other. Ahrar al-Sham, which lost 40 fighters, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said in a statement, "The Idlib victors should put partisan interests aside and give a good image of Islam in administering the city." The internationally recognized National Coalition welcomed the victory in Idlib as "an important victory on the road to the full liberation of Syrian territory." Even some Syrians who practice Druze Islam, an offshoot of early Shiite Islam, joined the attacks against the regime. Around 2,000 al-Nusra Front and allied fighters took part in the battle while the regime launched some 150 air strikes in a bid to hold off the attack, AFP reported. Following the seizure of the city, the Idlib Media Center released a video showing that the regime troops killed at least 15 prisoners in the security compound while the fighters freed 53 prisoners, including two women.Although opposition groups claim the success belonged to every group that took part in the clashes, it is believed that al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front is the leading group. The Western-backed Syrian National Coalition and Ahrar al-Sham announced that Idlib will not become an Islamic Emirate and demanded to form a joint administration in Idlib. However, al-Nusra Front said in a statement that Army of Fatah commanders will form a joint force to protect and administrate the city and the joint force will be under a judicial committee that will rule the city according to Sharia law. It is well-known that al-Nusra Front, which controls some parts of Syria near the Turkish border, applies a hard religious jurisprudence but unlike ISIS, does not repress people or force non-Muslims to flee. The Arab uprisings, which euphorically swept across the Middle East and North Africa several years ago, appealed to Syrians who had lived under the dictatorship of the Assad family since 1970, when Bashar's father Hafiz Assad seized power. Since then the majority Sunnis were forced to live in a police state that tried to control every movement, organization and business through the use of a wide-ranging intelligence service. In March of 2011, Syrians were emboldened enough to raise their voices against the dictatorship. However, the regime's response was not as peaceful as the protests. And the country was subsequently dragged into a deadly civil war after opposition groups took up arms against the government. The Syrian civil war has now entered its fifth year and has caused the death of more than 200,000 people and at least 60,000 are missing. The war also displaced nearly 10 million people. While the international and regional powers continue endless discussions, the regime does not just use conventional weapons but also chemical weapons. About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq, many without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency revealed. The 13.6 million include 7.2 million displaced within Syria – an increase from a long-held U.N. estimate of 6.5 million, as well as 3.3 million Syrian refugees abroad, 1.9 million displaced in Iraq and 190,000 who have left to seek safety. The vast majority of Syrian refugees have gone to Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. Western countries have been frequently criticized by aid agencies and the U.N. for not opening their borders to the Syrian refugees as the most developed countries have received the least number of refugees.