In the dead of night, it's time for the unit to go back to Irbil, 70-minute flight over northeast Syria and northwest Iraq. There are virtually no ISIS Daesh jihadis Idlib, except lots of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, as al-Qaeda Syria, known inside Beltway as..…
By motivated and battle, The reason why al-Nusra Front has been able to defeat Turkey-backed militants appears to be that the ranks of al-Nusra Front have now been swelled-hardened jihadist deserters from Islamic State after the fall of the latter's caliphate Mosul Iraq and Raqqa Syria.. The US..…
Iraq, Syria Holding Joint Military Operations to Clean Up Common Border . . Hama: Tahrir Al-Sham Heavily Defeated by Syrian Army in Failed Attempt to Take Back Lost Regions . . ..…
Hayat Tahrir ash-Sha’m. At one time known as al-Qaeda in Syria,[44] Hayat Tahrir ash-Sha’m split off from ISIS (and also from al-Qaeda) and is, aside from the ambiguous case of the Syrian Kurds, probably the largest of the remaining non-ISIS, anti-Assad factions. ... Clarke, “The..…
The five terrible entities are Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (Syria), Houthis (Yemen), Islamic State (Syria and Iraq), al-Shabab (Somali), and Taliban (Afghanistan). ..…
Maldives is home to one of the largest capita contingents of individuals who have traveled to fight alongside IS, Jabhat al-Nusra, and Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham among others in both Iraq and Syria. ..…
KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Syria, Damascus, Homs, Bashar al-Assad, Hassan Daaboul, Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Nusra Front, Shia, Alawite, Sunni, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Liberation of the Levant Organization, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, JFS, Front for the Conquest of Syria, Islamic State / of..…