For a modest fee Ibrahim leads Syrians across the Turkish border, one of many services his organisation, the al-Qaida affiliated Al-Nusra Front, provides to those in need.
On a recent day he led a line of taxis up a muddy road through olive groves toward Turkey's border with Syria, where dozens of Syrians clutching overstuffed suitcases and burlap sacks waited on the other side to get across.
Thousands have fled following an outbreak of clashes pitting Islamist and moderate rebels against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a feared al-Qaida affiliate with roots in the Iraq war.
The fighting has claimed an estimated 1,100 lives, and comes as the rebels are still battling forces loyal to President Bashar Assad.
Ibrahim, who asked that his last name not be used, belongs to Al-Nusra Front, which is also affiliated with al-Qaida but has pursued a very different strategy in Syria, seeking to build popular support by providing aid and other services.
"We are civilized," he says. "We don't have this archaic mentality."
He charges refugees about $15 to cross, less for those of more limited means.
"I am here to protect people from injustice and help them however I can," says Ibrahim, a soft-spoken man with a close-cropped beard.
"If people don't have a way to get to Turkey, are we supposed to leave them here to die?"
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