Jabhet al-Nusra is the only official "Qaeda" in Syria

The majority of journalists (if not all), who are reporting about the revolution in Syria, confuse between Jabhet al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq & Levant, as they view both of them as a branch of al-Qaeda. For that reason ,  I decided to clear this up in this blog . First of all it is important to explain the mechanism that take for a faction to be part of al-Qaeda franchise....

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Amred groups in east ghota including ISIS assign one Sharia'a judge for Judicial Affairs

On 8th of November 2013, Abu Mohamad al-Fateh , Chef of Kataib Shabab al-Huda, announced on his twitter account (@AboMHDAlFateh) an agreement between twenty two armed rebellion groups, in east Ghota outskirts of Damascus, to assign one Sharia'a judge "Sheikh Abd al-Aziz al-Uyon" for judicial affairs. The agreement mentioned also forming a judicial body to solve judicial issues between civilians and...

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Al Qaeda, the new bloods

Al-Qaeda ( Arabic: القاعدة‎ al-qāʿidah), English translation"The Base": is a global militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden and Abdallah Azam between August 1988 and late 1989, during the Soviet War in Afghanistan. It operates as a network comprising multinational Sunni Muslim calling for global Jihad and applying sharia'a law. It has been designated as a terrorist organization...

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(Update 2) The foreign fighters in Syria (The other face)

Syrian uprising started with peaceful protests in mid of mars 2011 but  couldn't not last for long, specially after the Syrian regime unprecedented brutal repression  in a hope to crack down the revolution. The peaceful protests gradually shifted to an armed rebellion, especially after the decision of the regime's head 'Bashar Al Assad'...

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How the jihadi factions are willing to apply Shari'a in al-Raqqa

Since the fall of al-Raqqa city into jihadi factions' hands in mid-March 2013, many observers have been keeping a close eye on the city to see how the jihadi factions will apply Shari'a on the inhabitants of that city. Either by, forcing it directly on people or letting people apply the provisions of Shari'a a step...

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