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    Al-Nusra Front, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, was a Sunni jihadist organization that fought against Syrian government forces in...
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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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  • al-Nusra Front under Julani split from al-Qaeda, rebranding as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. Al-Nusra Front/Jabhat Fateh al-Sham co-operated with Ahrar al-Sham...
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  • al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in the northwestern Idlib Governorate and opposed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's attempts to integrate al-Nusra into...
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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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  • 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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    and the Bayada Martyrs' Brigade came into conflict with the Al-Nusra Front. The Al-Nusra forces attacked Sarout and his fighters over a claim that Sarout...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • On 24 January 2017, the al-Nusra Front backed by Nour al-Din al-Zenki attacked the Army of Mujahideen and the Levant Front west of Aleppo, defeating...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • October 2015, positions of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement in Aleppo city was attacked by al-Qaeda's al-Nusra Front. 19 October 2015, the military commander...
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    Salafist jihadist forces, including al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the al-Nusra Front in the al-Hasakah Governorate as part of the...
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    Sarayat al-Quds, the group was founded by Abu Abdul 'Aziz al-Qatari as a subunit within the al-Nusra Front. The group later became independent, because al-Nusra...
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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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  • cooperation with Al-Nusra Front but acknowledged common operations with another Islamist group Ahrar ash-Sham. The growth of al-Nusra Front and other Islamist...
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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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  • 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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  • 2014) also known by his nom de guerre Abu Yusuf Al-Turki (the "Turk") was a sniper in the al-Nusra Front who trained fighters on how to become snipers....
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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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    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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