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In Hayat Tahrir al-Sham: Origin and background in al-Qaeda
By 2013 the Nusrah Front, gaining an advantage in resources needed for battle through its ties to al-Qaeda, had become one of the most effective forces among the civil war’s rebels. With the rise of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014, the Nusrah Front was…
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In Syria: Uprising and civil war
…militias as well as the Nusrah Front, a newly formed affiliate of al-Qaeda that was responsible for a series of bomb attacks on military and police forces.
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In Syria: Spread of ISIL into eastern Syria and international involvement in the war
…merger was rejected by the Nusrah Front (Jabhat al-Nuṣrah); infighting between the Nusrah Front, aligned with the faction of al-Qaeda led by Ayman al-Zawahiri, and ISIL, the successor of al-Qaeda in Iraq, followed.
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In Syria: Spread of ISIL into eastern Syria and international involvement in the war
The Nusrah Front, ISIL’s strongest ideological rival led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (Golani), united with smaller sympathetic groups as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in January 2017 and together fought ISIL in Idlib, capturing territory that ISIL had held in the area. In June 2017 a mostly…
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In Syrian Civil War: International intervention and the entrance of Russian forces
ISIS’s ideological rivals, including the Nusrah Front led by Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (Golani; byname of Ahmed al-Sharaa), merged into Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and together fought ISIS in Idlib, capturing territory held by ISIS in the area. In June 2017 the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an assault…
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