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    Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra or Jabhat Nusrat Ahl al-Sham, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, and also later known as Jabhat Fatah...
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    the al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in the northwestern Idlib Governorate. He resisted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's attempts to merge al-Nusra Front...
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    The al-Nusra Front–SRF/Hazzm Movement conflict started in late October 2014, during the Syrian Civil War, in Idlib and Aleppo governorates, during which...
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    leaderships of ISIL and al-Nusra Front on June 2013, Ayman al-Zawahiri directly rebuked al-Baghdadi's moves by recognizing al-Nusra Front as the only official...
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    intention to absorb the Al-Nusra Front thereby taking direct command over its fighters and territory. Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri strongly denounced...
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    with Tahrir al-Sham, its main rival and former ally. Before 2016, Ahrar al-Sham allied with the al-Nusra Front, a now-defunct affiliate of al-Qaeda. From...
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  • soldier who was the military chief of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front. He became the head of the Hurras al-Din in February 2018,[better source needed]...
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    stance against it. In September 2015, JMA pledged allegiance to the al-Nusra Front. The group has been designated as a terrorist organization by Bahrain...
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    Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar left the alliance to join Al-Nusra Front. 10 December 2016: The two remaining factions in the alliance Harakat Sham al-Islam...
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    and the Levant, backed by al-Nusra Front, in April 2015 and lost 90% of its territory in Yarmouk Camp. As result, Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis disintegrated, as...
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    reportedly includes an al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra Front and another Salafi coalition known as Ahrar al-Sham. Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri consider India...
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    of whom (al-Nusra and Jund al-Aqsa) were directly connected to al-Qaeda. With Ahrar al-Sham being the largest group, al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham together...
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    democratic front. In January 2017, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was formed when al-Nusra Front joined with other Salafi factions Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna...
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    intention to expand into Syria and forcibly assimilate the Al-Nusra Front, leading to a conflict with Al-Qaeda's general command. In June 2014, the group once...
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    fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinated with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria. At an intelligence gathering...
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  • among various Islamist factions such as Al-Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and the Islamic Front. On 26 July 2012, FSA fighters stormed an...
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  • Founded in February 2013, due to personal disputes with the and the al-Nusra Front, it originally operated as an independent jihadist group while still...
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    about Timber Sycamore-backed rebels fighting alongside the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and its allies. In July 2017, US officials stated that Timber...
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  • military officer who was a senior official in Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front, serving as the group's spokesman. Suri was born in 1950 in the Syrian...
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  • States designation of Al-Mourabitoun was done as an alias of Al-Mulathameen. Al-Nusra Front is considered an alias of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham by Canada, New...
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    both sides dead. On 21 August 2014, the al-Nusra Front invaded Lebanon near Arsal and the Bekaa Valley town of Al-Fakiha. Following a battle between them...
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    Operations Room Golan Regiment Mukhtar Army Al-Nusra Front is a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria. Al-Nusra has launched many attacks and bombings, mostly...
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  • history of coordinating with Ahrar al-Sham and al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front (a group rebranded as Tahrir al-Sham since January 2017), though clashes with...
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    original on 19 February 2014. "Al-Nusra Front: liberating the city of "Tal Brak" in Al-Hasakah countryside". El-Dorar al-Shamia. 13 January 2014. Cédric...
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  • the al-Qaeda affiliated Hurras al-Din who was the chief religious authority for al-Nusra Front and the group's former second-in-command. Sami al-Oraydi...
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    Hurras al-Din was established by the leaders of the AQ-affiliated Khorasan group and Al-Qaeda loyalists of Al-Nusra Front who opposed Al-Nusra's dissolution...
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  • al-Sham in 2017. On 31 October 2014, amid fighting between al-Nusra and the western-backed Hazzm Movement and Syrian Revolutionaries Front, Liwa al-Haqq...
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  • organisation of Jabhat al-Nusra, Al-Qahtani was a known vocal critic of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and made multiple attempts for the Al-Nusra Front to separate from...
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  • from Al-Nusra Front and Jund al-Aqsa launched an overnight attack against the Free Syrian Army's 13th Division headquarters in the town of Ma'arrat al-Nu'man...
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    forcibly dissolved by the al-Nusra Front in December 2014 due to its association with ISIL. The group was established by Saddam al-Khalifa and Rashid Tukwa...
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