Al-Nusra Front, whose leader on Thursday announced its break from Al-Qaeda, is a well-organised, battle-hardened jihadist group allied with rebels fighting the Syrian regime. Abu Mohamad al-Jolani ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond ...

IDLIB, SyriaIDLIB, Syria — A suicide bomber set off his explosives late on Thursday in northwestern Syria, killing the co-founder of the country’s main al-Qaida-linked group that controls much of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BEIRUT (Reuters) - The al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front acknowledged on Saturday that its members were involved in the killing of Druze ...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front says it has quit frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where ...

BEIRUT — The Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against Daesh north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to ...

BEIRUT – 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 ...

Ahmed Shaheed, a fighter with al-Nusra Front - al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria - told Middle East Eye that the attacks in Paris were to be expected following France's bombing of Islamic State in Syria. ...

BEIRUT — Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies seized the last regime-held military base in northwestern Idlib province on Wednesday, in the latest setback for President Bashar Al-Assad's forces.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The most feared and effective rebel group battling President Bashar al-Assad, the Islamist Nusra Front, is being eclipsed by a more radical jihadi force whose aims go far beyond ...