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

... and close to Israel. Actually, Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt called on the Syrian Druzes to refrain from supporting Bashar Assad . Druzes governed by Jabhat al-Nusra in northern Syria and the province of Idlib in the district of Jabal a-Sumak had to submit and renege on their ... ... Qatari TV channel al-Jazeera , al-Jilani said that his people were not targeting the Alawites . He insisted that in Syria al-Qaeda was attacking "only those who assault us and kill our men." Al-Qaeda was not going to use Syria for striking ...