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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the biggest jihadist groups in Syria, has cut its ties with al Qaeda, and changed its name. The organization claims the move is meant to foster unification among rebel factions ...

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 ...

In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 photo, a Syrian shouts slogans against the regime in front of a flag of the armed Islamic opposition group, the Nusra front, during a demonstration in the Bustan al-Qasr ...

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An undated militant photo released online on July 28, 2016, shows Abu Mohammad al-Julani. The Nusra Front leader announced in a video message that the militant group is changing its name and claims it ...

This file photo posted on the Twitter page of Syria’s al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front on April 1, 2016, shows fighters from al-Qaida’s branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, marching toward the northern ...

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 ...