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 ...

US Treasury says it removed 518 Syrian individuals and entities from its list of sanctions after president’s decree.

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 ...

Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, in August 2011, to April 2013, Islamic State and al-Nusra Front were a single organization that chose the banner of “Jabhat al Nusra.” ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Al Qaeda’s franchise in Syria, just one year old, is now the fastest-growing al Qaeda front in the world, attracting fighters from across the Islamic world. Jabhat al Nusra, translated variously ...

Fighters from Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front drive in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo flying Islamist flags as they head to a frontline, on May 26, 2015.

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 ...

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