Jabhat Al-Nusra

al-Qaeda: from boogeyman to ally in a few short years.

At the recent annual convention of Veterans for Peace, VFP Vice President Jerry Condon said: “The US peace movement has been demobilized by disinformation on Syria.”
Disinformation and propaganda on Syria takes three distinct forms. The first is the demonization of the Syrian leadership. The second is the romanticization of the opposition. The third form involves attacking anyone questioning the preceding characterizations.

(SP) Though many scoffed when the Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, rebranded itself Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham, that cosmetic change was apparently enough to convince the US government to start sending them arms.

May 23, 2016, SANA:
A source at Lattakia Police Command said that 45 people were killed and others, mostly women and children, were injured, in the terrorist attacks hit Jableh city.

By Stephen Lendman | March 31, 2016 It’s a complete hoax – a phony pretext for waging endless imperial wars, wanting whole continents carved up for profit and dominance. Fictitious enemies are created. Premeditated wars of aggression follow. Rules of engagement are changed from rule of law observance to anything goes. America declared war on […]

Seeing the government in Damascus as too far to the left, Washington has been trying to orchestrate a regime change in Syria since at least 2003 By Stephen Gowans | what’s left |February 9, 2016 Documents prepared by US Congress researchers as early as 2005 revealed that the US government was actively weighing regime change […]

Syria Online – January 27, 2016 The Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said that the two terrorist bombings that took place in Homs city on Tuesday and other similar terrorist crimes require an immediate and stern condemnation from Security Council and taking deterrent actions against the states that support and fund terrorism. In two identical letters […]

By Prof. Tim Anderson | Global Research | March,  2015 Reports that US and British aircraft carrying arms to ISIS have been shot down by Iraqi forces have been met with shock and denial in western countries. Few in the Middle East doubt that Washington is playing a ‘double game’ with its proxy armies in Syria, […]

LDF or Local Defense Forces, Hundreds of Syrian volunteers backed by Iraqi and Iranian militia, take the lead for Aleppo southwestern countryside battle .
The primary information about “LDF” Refer that was formed in order to coordinate the battle to break Jabhat Al-Nusra affiliated Al-Qaeda siege on Fuah and Kufrayya.

By Sharmine Narwani | RT | November 9, 2015 The US is not interested in defeating ISIS but would want to control its movements to create a geopolitical balance on the ground and provide the US-led coalition with leverage at the Vienna talks, said Middle East geopolitics analyst Sharmine Narwani. RT: There are more than 60 […]