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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The Nusra Front on Saturday reportedly asked the Salafist Jihadist movement in Jordan not to send any more fighters to southern Syria before consulting with it first.

Jabhat al-Nusra, the coalition of hardliner Jihadists fighting the Syrian regime forces in Syria, issued an internal memo asking Jordan's Salafist Jihadist movement to stop sending fighters to the town of Dera'a in southern Syria near the borders with Jordan.

The memo reportedly came after a number of Jordanian Jihadist fighters fighting in Dera'a returned to Jordan in the past few days, a senior leader in the movement told UPI.

UPI reported on Saturday that 15-20 Jordanian Salafist Jihadists fighters returned to Jordan in the past two days, according to the Jordanian movement source who did not wish his name to be disclosed.

The movement had announced on Friday the death of one of its members fighting in Dera'a, bringing the total number of deaths of Jordanian fighters to five in the past 24 hours.

The source said that Anas Yaseen Owjat, a resident of Ma'an in southern Jordan, was killed in clashes with Syrian regime forces in Dera'a on Friday.

Earlier on Friday, the movement announced also the death of four of its members there, bringing the total number of Jordanian fighters killed in neighboring Syria to over 54 since the conflict began over two years ago.

Over 500 members of the Salafist Jihadist movement in Jordan had taken part in the fighting in neighboring Syria since the beginning of the conflict, Muhammad Al-Shalabi, known as Abu Sayyaf, told Ammon News last week.

Abu Sayyaf had said that the Free Syrian Army and affiliated opposition fighters in Syria are in "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.

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.