En Route to Useful Syria: Al-Qaeda Back in the Game?
... Jabhat al-Nusra only if they stop being Alawites. The operations of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria fully match the updated ideology of al-Qaeda and the evolving Salafi jihadist thinking in the Arab Spring context. The support of protest movements in their drive ... ... proclaimed moderate (as compared with the ISIS) treatment of minorities – these are the basics of the strategy employed by Jabhat al-Nusra. What’s Next? Political Extremist Groups and Islamic Movements in the Middle East and North Africa. RIAC Reader Before Russian military involvement began, some experts still believed that the Syria crisis was a local or regional phenomenon. Now ...