T he Nusra Front announced its split from al-Qaeda on July 28, with the group renaming itself Jabhat Fatah al-Sham. The move is being seen as a shrewd attempt to hide their militant ideology and ...

"If Israel feels that a certain leader...is an evident threat to its national security, it will operate," a former Israeli ...

The Nusra Front, Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, is consolidating power in territory stretching from the Turkish border to central and southern Syria, crushing moderate opponents and forcibly ...

Decker says that the interview is part of a PR strategy by which the Nusra Front is seeking to distinguish itself as a more moderate alternative to Isis, with whom al-Julani rejected a merger in 2013.

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 ...

Nusra's leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, said in a video announcement that the Front no longer had any ties to an outside group, meaning it is formally no longer a branch. But deep connections remain.

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 ...

Al Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra Front has taken over key areas in northwestern Syria, ousting U.S.-backed Syrian rebels, monitors and activists say.

When Abu Mohammad al-Julani, commander of the al Qaeda franchise in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, or the Nusra Front, announced last month that his group was severing its affiliation with al Qaeda, he ...

“Al-Nusra Front doesn’t have any plans or directives to target the West,” said Julani, whose face was not shown on screen while he was interviewed by Ahmed Mansour for the broadcaster.