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    Al-Nusra Front, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, was a Salafi jihadist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the...
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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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    as the emir of the now-defunct al-Nusra Front, the former Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. The US State Department listed Al-Julani as a "Specially Designated...
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  • Humam al-Shami or Faruq al-Suri, (born 1977) is a Syrian militant and soldier who was the military chief of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front. He...
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  • targeted positions held by al-Nusra Front, as well as other Islamist and non-Islamist rebels, while the US also targeted al-Nusra with airstrikes. In early...
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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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    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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  • among various Islamist factions such as Jabhat al Nusra, Ahrar al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and the Islamic Front. On 26 July 2012, FSA fighters stormed an outpost...
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    group's expansion into Syria and its intention to absorb the Al-Nusra Front. Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri strongly denounced the announcement and officially...
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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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  • Abu Firas al-Suri (Arabic: أبو فراس السوري, romanized: ʾAbū Firās as-Sūrī), was a senior official in al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front, serving...
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  • organization of Jabhat Al-Nusra he was a known vocal critic of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and made multiple attempts for the Al-Nusra Front to separate from ISI...
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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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    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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    Hurras al-Din was established by the leaders of the AQ-affiliated Khorasan group and Al-Qaeda loyalists of Al-Nusra Front who opposed Jabhat Fatah al-Sham...
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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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  • broken out between the JFS and Al-Qaeda loyalists of Al-Nusra Front, before the JFS-Ahrar al-Sham merger to form Tahrir al-Sham (Syrian Liberation Committee)...
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    fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinates with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria. At an intelligence gathering...
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  • forces of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. In late December 2012, Schrier was captured by Jabhat al-Nusra, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, while traveling...
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  • Jaysh al-Islam and other members of the Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta, along with associated groups such as Al-Nusra Front and its Jaish al-Fustat...
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    Battle of Shaddadi (2013) (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the al-Nusra Front)
    between government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Islamist Al-Nusra Front fighters in the city of Shadadeh, located near the Iraqi...
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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 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham by Canada, New...
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    (73 percent in the areas it controlled), 35 percent who supported the Al-Nusra Front (58 percent in the areas it controlled), and 22 percent who supported...
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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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  • join the Al-Nusra Front branch of al-Qaeda. On 28 July 2016, the Al-Minaret al-Bayda media wing of the Syrian al-Qaeda branch Jabhat al-Nusra released...
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  • al-Nusra Front ibn Rajab (1335–1393), Hanbali Arab Muslim scholar Abu Faraj al-Libbi, nom de guerre of a Libyan alleged to be a senior member of al-Qaeda...
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  • Battle of Markada (category Military operations of the Syrian civil war involving the al-Nusra Front)
    jihadist groups, al Qaeda's al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), over the town of Markada in the Al-Hasakah Governorate...
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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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    groups and about Timber Sycamore-backed rebels fighting alongside the al-Nusra Front and its allies. In July 2017, US officials stated that Timber Sycamore...
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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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