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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Lebanese Hezbollah's support and supply to the Syrian regime has "turned the equation" in the battleground against opposition fighters, including Jihadi elements and Al Nusra Front, a Jordanian Salafist Jihadist leader said.

Muhammad Al Shalabi, known as "Abu Sayyaf," a leader in Jordan's ultra-conservative Salafist Jihadist current said that the opposition fighters of Al Nusra Front are facing a "grand conspiracy" by world powers who are leaning towards favoring the regime of Bashar al-Assad to Islamist fighters.

Abu Sayyaf told Ammon News on Monday that "when given the choice between the Syrian regime and al Nusra Front, [vested powers] would choose the regime; because it is closer to them."

The leader said that the Free Syrian Army and affiliated opposition fighters in Syria are in a "dire and critical position," especially after Hezbollah supplied the Syrian regime with fighters and equipment that "turned the equation" in the battleground.

After months of opposition fighters gaining ground in various cities across Syria, recent weeks witnessed a resurgence of Syrian army and pro-regime forces reclaiming towns and critical border regions.

"What is happening now is that [vested world powers] are colluding against the Mujahideen in Syria," Abu Sayyaf said, citing that pro-opposition powers are "changing perspectives" on Syria with the rise of Al Nusra Front and similar Islamist fighters in the fight against the Syrian regime.

Over 50 Jordanian fighters have been killed in fighting in neighboring Syria since the conflict began over two years ago, Abu Sayyaf told Ammon News, adding that over 500 Jordanian Salafist Jihadist fighters are currently in Syria.

Abu Sayyaf called on Jihadist fighters in Syria to "act responsibly," and called on the Syrian people to support Al Nusra fighters "because the alternative for the Syrian regime will just be another side of the same coin," according to his expression.

The conflict in Syria has claimed the lives of over 80,000 people, and left millions displaced since the conflict erupted in Spring of 2011.

Over 540,000 Syrian refugees fled the conflict into neighboring Jordan, and hundreds of thousands more fled to Lebanon and Turkey.

(Report by Majed al Dabbas/ Banan Malkawi for Ammon News English)