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Ceasefire agreed to in Syrian in one week. John Kerry rocks. Ceasefire doesn't apply to ISIS. (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2016 OP
Hands off jabhat al nusra Jesus Malverde Feb 2016 #1

Jesus Malverde

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1. Hands off jabhat al nusra
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:24 PM
Feb 2016

Last edited Fri Feb 12, 2016, 11:26 PM - Edit history (1)

al-Qaeda gets a pass....

The al-Nusra Front, or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام? Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahli ash-Shām, "The Support Front for the People of Al-Sham", often abbreviated to JN or JaN), sometimes called al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a Sunni Islamist militia fighting against Syrian Government forces in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamist state in the country. It is the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda, and also operates in neighbouring Lebanon. As of early 2015, the group became one of the major components of the powerful jihadist joint operations room named Army of Conquest which took over large territories in Northern Syria, although by late 2015 al-Nusra's role in the alliance turned unclear.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
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