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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...

BEIRUT – Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate confirmed on Friday that its top field commander was killed in an airstrike that targeted a meeting of the group's senior leadership. Abu Anas al-Shami, the ...

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate al-Nusra Front on Monday reaffirmed its allegiance to the global militant network and denied any plan to break away. In a statement released Monday night on Twitter, Al ...

“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.