The Nusra Front’s adoption of the new name Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and claim that it has separated itself from al-Qaeda was designed to influence US policy, not to make the group any more independent of al-Qaeda. The objective of the maneuver was to head off US-Russian military cooperation against the jihadist group, renamed last week, […]
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