En Route to Useful Syria: Al-Qaeda Back in the Game?

... and Hezbollah, the government forces seem able to divert their opponents' offensive from Latakia and Damascus, and clean the Useful Syria territory of radical groups. In the near future we should expect fierce battles in the south (around Hama and Damascus),... ... the current name is Jabhat al-Nusra Tanzim Kaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Sham (The Front of Assistance – Organization of al-Qaeda Jihad in Sham (Levant). 1 . Mohammad Abu Rumman / Hassan Abu Hanieh. The 'Islamic State' Organization: The Sunni Crisis and the Struggle of Global Jihadism. Amman: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2015. P....