Nusra in a sentence

Baghdadi says that his group will now be known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil or Isis) after it absorbs an al Qaeda-backed militant group in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front.

Jabhat al-Nusra (also known as al-Nusra Front) is a terrorist group banned in Russia.

HTS is the successor of the Al-Nusra Front, Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate which came to dominate the Syrian rebel forces.

The dominant insurgent force is Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, which began as al-Nusra.

Under his command, al-Nusra entrenched itself in Syria’s northwestern Idlib Governorate, becoming one of the most formidable factions in the conflict.

He questioned American forces’ current role in Syria, insisting that instead of fighting terrorism, they “continue supporting UN-designated terrorist groups such as al-Nusra Front* as well as looting the oil and wealth of the Syrian people”.

In southwestern Aleppo, the army units responded to a terrorist attack by Jabhat al-Nusra on the direction of Khalsa-Zitan, inflicting great losses upon them and forcing the rest to flee.

Standing against Assad in the absence of western intervention was an Islamist group called Jabhat al-Nusra.

The split back then angered the more within Jabhat al-Nusra, which in turn announced the formation of Hurras al-Din (Guardians of Religion), which is affiliated with al-Qaeda.

Another crisis accompanied the very public uproar following the breakdown in al-Qaeda senior leadership’s control over Jabhat al-Nusra and its subsequent evolution into JFS and then HTS.

Its name, meaning the Support Front, was designed to present Jabhat al-Nusra as an intrinsically local movement, one that was complementary to pre-existing revolutionary efforts.

Meanwhile, A unit of army foiled an infiltration attempt by terrorist group of Jabhat al-Nusra on the Family House axis on the western outskirts of Aleppo, killing three of the terrorists.

The province is largely controlled by other Islamist groups, including one linked to al-Qaeda often called the Al-Nusra Front.

Abdul Kareem quickly found a job with hardline Islamist coalition Hay’at Tahrir a-Sham (HTS), the dominant faction in Idlib and formerly al-Qaeda’s Syrian counterpart Jabhat a-Nusra.

A fighter from the Islamist Syrian rebel group Nusra Front during a fight with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad at the front in Aleppo in 2012.

Al-Kawari has also been associated with fundraising and the transfer of funders to the Al-Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front.

But the operations were jeopardised as some rebel groups, including al Nusra, started firing rockets at the humanitarian corridors.

It includes the group formerly known as the Nusra Front, which served as al Qaeda’s Syrian branch.

It’s getting worse for the terrorists from Jabhat al-Nusra, who willingly or unwillingly have been sustainably spared by the American coalition," he said.

Meanwhile, Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists fired rocket shells on civilians’ homes in al-Baath city in Quneitra.