Its leader announced a split from al-Qaeda and a new name, Jabhat Fateh Al Sham Appearing in a video on Thursday, the Nusra Front’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani revealed his face for the first time, ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the terrorist organization every counterterrorism official, western government and U.S. politician is talking about. Flush with hundreds of millions ...

The United States and Russia announced on July 15 that they would coordinate airstrikes against the Islamic State and the former Nusra Front, Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. The Nusra Front is one of ...

Nusra, for example, has been seeking an alliance with the powerful hardline Islamist rebel faction Ahrar al-Sham. But Ahrar al-Sham has been reluctant, seeking to be closer to the Syrian opposition ...

Conflict dynamics in southern Syria remain complex, and a recent series of assassinations has targeted high-level leaders among armed opposition groups operating in the area. The accompanying excerpt ...

Abu Muhammad al-Golani, leader of the Nusra Front, appeared on video July 28 to announce his group’s formal separation from al-Qaeda and its rebranding as the “Levantine Conquest Front.” Don’t believe ...

The Nusra Front, one of the strongest radical Islamist groups in Syria, announced Thursday that it was splitting from its global sponsor Al-Qaeda and rebranding itself in a bid to prevent it being ...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey - Arab Islamists and Kurdish militants, two of the most controversial armed groups in Syria's civil war, for the past week have been battling each other for control of key towns ...

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Nusra Front, a rebel group fighting the Syrian regime, said Thursday that it is breaking organizational ties with al-Qaeda in an apparent effort to remove any pretext for Russia and the U.S. to attack ...