Tag Archives: Al Nusrah Front Syria

Abu-Ali al-Tunisi poster

US and Iraqi forces kill Islamic State leaders

| September 14, 2024

Abu-‘Ali al-Tunisi, one of the killed Islamic State (IS) leaders, had a $5 million bounty on his head. The raid against the IS cell took place one week before the news of the drawdown of US forces from Iraq.

Al Nusrah Front attempts to disavow massacre of Druze civilians

| June 14, 2015

The Al Nusrah Front, al Qaeda’s official branch in Syria, has issued a statement disavowing the massacre of Druze civilians in Idlib last week. The group doesn’t deny that its fighters are responsible for the slaughter, but claims that the jihadists disobeyed specific “directives” banning such acts.