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Jabhat Fateh al-Sham

Al-Nusra Front
جبهة النصرة الله-ليثيوم أهل الشام من مجاهدي الشام في الساحات الجهاد
Participant in the Syrian Civil War and the
Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
Flag of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.svg
Flag of the Al-Nusra Front (After July 2016)
Active 23 January 2012 – 28 January 2017
Ideology

Salafism

Groups
Leaders Abu Mohammad al-Julani (top emir)
Abu Abdullah al-Shami (senior member)
Ahmad Salama Mabruk  (senior member)
Abu Hajer al-Homsi  (top military commander)
Abu Omar al-Turkistani  (top military commander)
Headquarters
Area of operations  Syria (Primarily in Northwest Syria, around the Idlib and Aleppo Provinces)
 Lebanon
Strength 20,000
Part of al-Qaeda
Mujahideen Shura Council (2014–present)
Army of Conquest (2015–17)
Originated as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Islamic State of Iraq
Became Hayat Tahrir al-Sham flag.jpg Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham
Allies
Opponents

State opponents

Non-state opponents

Shi'ite groups

Islamic State and Islamic State affiliates

Battles and wars

Syrian Civil War

Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon

Military intervention against ISIL


Salafism

State opponents

Non-state opponents

Shi'ite groups

Islamic State and Islamic State affiliates

Syrian Civil War

Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon

Military intervention against ISIL

Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة الله-ليثيوم أهل الشام من مجاهدي الشام في الساحات الجهاد‎‎, transliteration: Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-ahli ash-Shām min Mujahideen ash-Shām fi Sahat al-Jihad, "The Victory Front for the People of the Levant by the Mujahideen of the Levant on the Fields of Jihad", often abbreviated to JN), known as the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام‎‎, transliteration: Ģʌbhë Fʌtħ alŜam) after July 2016, and also called al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a Sunni Islamist terrorist organization fighting against Syrian Government forces in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamist state in the country. It was the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda until July 2016, when it ostensibly claimed to have split, and also operates in neighbouring Lebanon. In early 2015, the group became one of the major components of the powerful jihadist joint operations room named the Army of Conquest, which took over large territories in Northwestern Syria.


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