arab peninsula and regarded as one of the most dangerous people in the world and al jazeera's carolyn malone reporter: sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi was of four members who launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007. two years later it merged with saudi arabia branch to become al-qaeda in arab yanukovich penally or aqup with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi cause leader and a man tried to blowup a plane flying to michigan with plastic explosives in his underwear and they said they trained him and they added sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi to the most wanted list in 2010 describing him as especially detonated global terrorist who is aqap leader responsible for targets and recruiting new members and allocating new attacks and under sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi leadership aqap carried out attacks on security forces including this in a military force in a province in 2013. [bomb sounds] the group also claimed responsibility for the attack this year on charlie hebdo magazine in paris and killed 11 people and as sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi did not join islamic state in iraq and levante he spent years with bin laden and loyal t

rebel groups ally to syrian opposition are losing ground and death toll continues to rise as carolyn malonets. >> reporter: most major forces in the syrian war are now involved in fighting for parts of aleppo. rebel groups lost the towns to i.s.i.l. i.s.i.l. used a car bomb on an attack before moving in. i.s.i.l. has released this video said to be its fighters in control of the town north of the province near the border with turkey. these advances by i.s.i.l. are blocking opposition supply routes between turkey and northern syria. kurdish fighters have made gains against i.s.i.l. further east near raka and hasaka. the government is fighting in aleppo too with troops on the ground but have advantage with the airforce and this is the aftermath of attack in the city of maria and government bombs are killing civilians too and they have to focus on the front line with i.s.i.l. or dash with pushing for new ground against the president assad's government raising questions about help from the international community. >> international coalition is supposed to be meeting tomorrow again, the big quest

is believed to launch 100 strikes in yemen since 2002 and here is al jazeera carolyn malone. >> reportereikh nasser al-wuhaishi was four al-qaeda members who launched al-qaeda in yemen in 2007 and two years later it merged with saudi arabia to be al-qaeda in the saudi arabia with sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi as the leader and tried to blowup a plane going to michigan with plastic explosives in underwear and said they trained and funded him. the u.s. state department added sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi to the most wanted list in 2010 as a global terrorist who was responsible for approving targets, recruiting new members and allocating resources to carry out attacks. under sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi's leadership they carried out a number of attacks on yemen security forces including this on a military post on a province in 2013. the group also claimed responsibility for the attack this year on charlie hebdo magazine that killed 11 people and as sheikh nasser al-wuhaishi rejected calls to join islamic state of iraq and levante he spent many years with bin laden and loyal to al-qaeda to the end, car

rather than pushing for new ground carolyn malone al jazeera. >>> we will talk more with the directore brookings doha center and is live with us now and let's talk about the fight of the opposition in syria. they have had to take on a two-prong fight essentially against i.s.i.l. for the past 18 months and how much has it bogged them down? are they stretched too thin? >> they had momentum until a few days ago and now we are seeing a familiar paton where dosh comes out of other places and also you see the regime doing the same. it's almost as if we are back a year because in late 2013 and early 2014 the opposition fighters were beating back dash and then dash came back with american weaponry and such things from iraq and started to put them on the back foot. what is significant about this is that the opposition had momentum in idlib and was poised i think even to take aleppo over the next few weeks, instead they are watching their back flank and supply routes as you said with the border crossing in particular with turkey. >> what more can be done then to take on i.s.i.l. and the regime