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Al-Nusra rebranding: What you need to know - CNN
Jabhat al-Nusra, one of the biggest jihadist groups in Syria, has cut its ties with al Qaeda, and changed its name – is it just a PR exercise or does it signal big news for the troubled country?
The Print on MSN2d
US revokes ‘terror’ label for Syria President-led HTS. What it means for diplomatic landscape in West Asia
Ahmed al-Sharaa led HTS, considered a jihadist group for years. Now, he has replaced Assad as Syria’s new president. And he ...
The Christian Post on MSN3d
US revokes terror label for Syria’s HTS after it toppled Assad; Christian group decries 'injustice'
The United States government has revoked its designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a foreign terrorist organization, seven ...
The Washington Post8y
Syria's Jabhat al-Nusra splits from al-Qaeda and changes its name
Jabhat al-Nusra announced that it would henceforth be known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham — or Front for the Conquest of Syria — and said it no longer owes allegiance to al-Qaeda.
The National Interest9y
Jabhat al-Nusra: Syria’s Other Menace | The National Interest
Jabhat al-Nusra shares the same, minority-within-a-minority Salafi-Jihadist interpretation of Islam as ISIL, despises any and all sectarian groups outside of Syria’s majority Sunni community and ...
The Daily Beast2y
Syria's Al Qaeda Gang Wars Between Jabhat Al-Nusra and ISIS
Syria's Al Qaeda Gang Wars Between Jabhat Al-Nusra and ISIS. The power-hungry leader of a jihadists rebel group in Syria has riled up his fellow extremists—and they're turning their guns on each ...