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 ... ... 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),...