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Al Nusrah Front
Legitimate targets? Debating how to battle the Assad regime
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Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama; Reef Dimashq; Latakia, where they were joined by Ahrar al Sham, Ansar al Sham, and Sham al Islam; and in Aleppo, where Al Nusrah announced it decided to restore electricity to the city 10 days after cutting it off. Fighting alongside Al Nusrah and the Islamic Front in Aleppo are Jaysh al Muhajireen wal Ansar, Fajer al Sham, Abo Amara battalions, Al Tawhid brigade, and Ahrar al Sham. The Islamic Front also fought against regime forces in Homs, Deraa, Deir Izzour, Idlib, and Damascus. The Islamic State…
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Al Qaeda
Revealed: the radical clerics using social media to back British jihadists in Syria
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Al Qaeda
Feds Worry Whether Foreign Fighters in Syria May Target US, DHS Head Says
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Syria
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said Iraqi helicopters attacked an eight-truck convoy in eastern Syria that was heading for Anbar to supply fuel to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham; it is the first time Iraq has claimed a strike inside Syria since the civil war began. Fighters from the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Jaysh Muhajireen wal Ansar clashed with regime forces in Old Aleppo; the Islamic Front blew up bridges and buildings, including the Chamber of Industry, which had been used as an office for regime forces; at least 21 people were killed and 50…
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Al Nusrah Front
Kuwait, ally on Syria, is also the leading funder of extremist rebels
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OPCW
Syria Making Good Progress in Chemical Weapons Removal
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Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces in Reef Dimashq; and in Aleppo, where they were joined by the Muhajireen wal Ansar Army. In Deraa, 88 fighters have been killed in the past two days in clashes between regime forces and rebels led by the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front. In Hasakah, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with Kurdish YPG and Asayesh forces, which also clashed with Syrian intelligence forces. ISIS battled Islamic fighters in Deir Izzour. ISIS left three people dead in a road in Idlib with a…
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Al Qaeda
Syria’s bloodshed spills into Iraq as al Qaeda bombs Shia militant rally
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Jordan
Jordan: Syrian women in distress
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CIA
The Big Weapons that the US May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels
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Syria
Syrian opposition looks to Congress for military boost
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Syria
The Ahl al Sham, an umbrella group comprising the Al Nusrah Front, the Islamic Front, and the Mujahideen Army, announced an interim truce with Kurdish YPG forces in Aleppo and its countryside. In Deraa, the Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front fought against regime forces, and 45 of the jihadist fighters were killed. Al Nusrah and Islamic fighters also battled regime forces in Hama and Reef Dimashq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham clashed with Islamic fighters in northern Reef Aleppo, clashed with the Islamic Front in Deir Izzour, claimed two suicide truck bombings yesterday in Hasakah,…
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Jordan
Worried about terror attacks at home, Jordan steps up arrests of suspected Syria jihadists
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Al Nusrah Front
Lebanon – Tripoli militia leaders abound despite crackdown
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Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham
So the Turkish army is in Syria…
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Syria
Syria launches reconciliation drive to disarm rebels
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Uzbek commands group within the Al Nusrah Front
Abu Hussein, the emir of the Seyfuddin Uzbek Jamaat, is thought to have “scores of fighters from Uzbekistan and neighboring countries in Central Asia,” a US intelligence official told The Long War Journal.
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Syria
A senior electricity official was killed by a car bomb in Damascus. The regime and the rebels blamed each other for damage to Aleppo’s Umayyad mosque. Regime airstrikes killed at least 30 people, mainly men, at a market in the rebel-held town of Atareb in Aleppo. Abu Bara al Libi, an emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham in Hasakah, was reportedly killed in an explosion along with 10 other ISIS fighters. Two trucks detonated in Hasakah near Kurdish YPG bases. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Deraa, Hama, Reef Dimashq,…
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Free Syrian Army
Syria’s Thousand Miles of Red Tape
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Dagestan
Syria’s Dagestan ruled by the sword of ISIS
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Syria
State media claimed that 115 rebels who were defected soldiers and policemen turned in their weapons in Quneitra. Rebels alleged that regime grenades and barrel bombs filled with chlorine were used recently to attack rebel-held areas; the OPCW said no state has asked it to investigate. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq; in Aleppo, where they were joined by the Jaysh al Mujahideen; in Latakia, where they were joined by Ahrar al Sham, Ansar Al Sham, Sham al Islam, and rebels; and in Hama. The Islamic Front also fought against regime forces…
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Syria
The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Reef Dimashq and in Latakia. Jaysh al Muhajireen wal Ansar, composed mainly of non-Syrians, fought alongside Al Nusrah in Aleppo. The Islamic Front clashed with regime forces in Homs, which rebels are trying to hold; Aleppo; Reef Dimashq; Damascus, where they set off a car bomb near a mosque; Idlib, Deir Izzour; Hama; and Deraa. The al-Battar Battalion said another German jihadist, not rapper Denis Cuspert, was killed recently in Hasakah. Al Nusrah killed 16 Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters, including some commanders, in two…
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Jordan
Miserable Syrians in Jordan say they’d rather go home
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France
France to unveil plan to fight Syrian jihadist threat
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Al Qaeda
The Saudi-Brotherhood divide
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Syria
Syrian rebels make last stand for Homs
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Syria
The Assad regime slated a presidential election for June 3; requests for nomination will be accepted until May 1. Mortar shells landed 100 meters from the Parliament in Damascus, killing five people. Rebels led by the Al Nusrah Front launched a counteroffensive in Homs, where they were joined by the Islamic Front. The Al Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front battled regime forces in Hama, Reef Dimashq, and Aleppo. In Deir Izzour, the Islamic Front continued to clash with regime forces near the military airport in Deir Izzour city, and Al Nusrah carried out two suicide car bombings in Ghariba.…
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Zawahiri discusses infighting in Syria, opposition to Egyptian government
In a newly released audio message, al Qaeda emir Ayman al Zawahiri says his group has not been defeated by American airstrikes. He also addresses the jihadist infighting in Syria, as well as his opposition to the Egyptian government.
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France
Kidnapped French journalists: we were chained together in underground cells
