Posts Tagged: Al Qaeda Syria

US Says It Struck Al Qaeda Training Facility in Syria
The United States said it carried out a strike on Sunday against al Qaeda in northwest Syria, calling the area a "safe haven" for the...

Washington Post Runs Op-Ed by Al Qaeda Leader in Syria
Yasser Arafat was notorious for his double speak: Nice and peaceful in English, harsh and extremist in Arabic. This tactic came to mind Friday, when the Washington Post published...

Turkey, Saudi Arabia Actively Supporting Islamic Rebels, Al-Qaeda in Syria
Independent - Turkey and Saudi Arabia are actively supporting a hardline coalition of Islamist rebels against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime that includes al-Qaeda's affiliate...

Mortar From Syria Strikes Israeli Territory During Assad, Rebel Clashes
Ynet - A mortal shell from Syria landed in Israeli territory Tuesday morning, during fierce fighting in nearby Quneitra between Syrian President Bashar Assad's army...

Al-Qaeda in Syria Reaches Israel’s Border
Violence from the Syrian Civil War has periodically spilled over onto Israeli territory. Now, Syrian Islamist fighters hoist the al-Qaeda flag and praise Osama bin...

Questions About Syria for the Muslim World
It has become a mainstay to begin articles on the Syrian conflict by stating the current score of the dead and displaced. For the record,...

The Free Syrian Army Can’t Shake Al Qaeda Ties
Cooperation between the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) and al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, continues even as the FSA tries to obtain more American arms. The...

President Obama’s Syria Sideshow
Syria's chaos is growing, with increased fighting among the opposition groups and fresh evidence that Bashar al-Assad is again using chemical weapons. But the chaos...

Signs of a Growing Split in Al Qaeda
A pledge signed by nine al-Qaeda commanders from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, and Iran is the latest example of how the terrorist movement's once monolithic structure has begun...

Michigan Man Arrested Trying to Fight for Hezbollah in Syria
A Dearborn resident was arrested Sunday night and charged with providing material support to the Shi'ite terrorist group Hezbollah. Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, who was born in Lebanon...

IDF Restructuring Syrian Border Defenses Due to Jihadi Threat
As Syria's brutal civil war drags on, Israeli military officials are preparing to deal with a rapidly changing security reality brought on by an influx...

Radical Syrian Jihadist Deletes Suicide Bombing Fatwa
A radical Syrian cleric who spent January on a U.S. fundraising tour has erased a 2001 fatwa endorsing suicide bombings from his website. The Investigative Project...

U.S. Freezes Aid to Syrian Rebels
New York Times - The United States has suspended the delivery of nonlethal aid to the Syrian opposition in northern Syria after concluding that some...

The Return of Al Qaeda
In the Daily Beast last week, Bruce Riedel, who served for years as a CIA analyst on the Middle East, wrote an important article with...