Badr himself had fought in Syria, after already fighting in Afghanistan and attempting to fight American forces in Iraq. Conspicuously, Ansar Jerusalem did not say which groups Badr fought for in ...

Ansar Jihad, an al Qaeda-linked group comprised of Central Asian and Turkish fighters, has released a video touting another training camp in northern Syria. Unlike other training camp videos from the ...

Announced just before Eid-al-Fitr — the celebration that concludes the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins in Syria on Monday — the new government features several fresh faces ...

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A US airstrike in Northwest Syria killed Muhammed Yusuf Ziya Talay, a senior leader of the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hurras al-Din, on February 23. The United States army announced on Saturday that it ...