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",
[35] 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,
[36][37] 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.
[38] The group announced its formation on 23 January 2012.
[39]
The United States has designated Jabhat al-Nusra as a foreign terrorist organization, followed by the
United Nations Security Council and many other countries.
[40] It was the official Syrian branch of
al-Qaeda until July 2016, when it ostensibly split.
[41][42]
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. It also operates in neighbouring
Lebanon.
[43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Nusra_Front
