Tags: Abu Muhammad al Julani, Al Nusrah Front, Al Qaeda, Syria. 6 Comments. mike merlo says: May 29, 2015 at 9:28 pm “In the end, the success or failure of al Qaeda’s strategy will be determined by ...

There, Julani founded a fighting group called Al-Nusra, and, in 2013, the U.S. designated him a terrorist. The brutal Syrian conflict repeatedly fragmented the various rebel groups, ...