MORE than 70 Syrian tribes declared war on the US at the weekend, announcing a new “resistance front” to fight foreign troops in northern Syria.

Tribal leaders from Hasakah, Aleppo and Raqqa met in the government-held city of Deir Hafer on Saturday and pledged their allegiance to Damascus, forming a new combined force to drive foreign troops and militants from Syrian soil.

The popular resistance unit will fight alongside the Syrian army in a bid to liberate all Syrian lands and return them to government control, the group said in a statement.