Al-Nusra Front: Difference between revisions

Upon the outbreak of the [[Syrian Civil War]] in 2011, [[Islamic State of Iraq|Islamic State of Iraq's]] leader [[Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi]] and [[al-Qaeda|al-Qaeda's]] central command authorized the Syrian [[Abu Mohammad al-Julani|Abu Mohammad al-Golani]] to set up a Syrian offshoot of al Qaeda in August 2011, to bring down the Assad government and establish an Islamic state there. Golani and six colleagues crossed the border from Iraq into [[Syria]], and reached out to Islamists released from Syria's [[Sednaya Prison|Sednaya military prison]] in May–June 2011 who were already active in fighting against Assad's security forces. The six men who founded Nusra alongside Julani were Saleh al-Hamawi (Syrian), [[Abu Maria Al-Qahtani]] (Iraqi), Mustafa Abd al-Latif al-Saleh (kunya:Abu Anas al-Sahaba) (Jordanian/Palestinian), Iyad Tubasi (kunya: Abu Julaybib) (Jordanian/Palestinian), Abu Omar al-Filistini (Palestinian) and Anas Hassan Khattab (Syria).<ref name="brookings" /><ref name="quilliam">{{cite news|title=Jabhat al-Nusra A Strategic Briefing |url=http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/jabhat-al-nusra-a-strategic-briefing.pdf |publisher=Quilliam Foundation |date=8 January 2013 |access-date=22 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722191931/http://www.quilliamfoundation.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/publications/free/jabhat-al-nusra-a-strategic-briefing.pdf |archive-date=22 July 2014}}</ref><ref name="politico23June14">{{cite web|title=The Jihad Next Door |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/al-qaeda-iraq-syria-108214|date=23 June 2014|access-date=3 September 2018|work=Politico|first=Rania|last=Abouzeid}}</ref>