Qaeda merges with ISIL at Syria-Iraq border town Al-Qaeda's Syrian offshoot on Wednesday made an oath of loyalty to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant at a key town on the Iraqi border. An ISIL jihadist confirmed the reports on Twitter, and posted a photograph showing an Egyptian Al-Nusra Front commander shaking hands with a ISIL leader of Chechen origin. IMAGES of the Twitter account of Abu Hafec al-Athri, a jihadist of ISIL