Four months later in December 2012, the U.S. State Department designated Nusra as an alias of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and thus as a terrorist organization. The following Friday, instead of Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIS -is the recapture of territory. Recapturing terri tory ends their ability to sell oil and gas from captured fields, as well as to overtly tax the population or charge user fees. A campaign of destruction against ISIS's cash storage facilities has also been carried out. iv The attacks Tuesday inside Syria came in three waves and targeted ISIS, the Khorasan Group and, apparently, al-Nusra Front. The groups share a similar ideology. But there are key differences. Here Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria. By Jennifer Cafarella. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is not the only Salafi-Jihadist threat emanating from Syria. Its prominence in U.S. policy has overshadowed a threat of similar magnitude from Jabhat al-Nusra (JN), the official al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate in Syria. JN rivals ISIS as a sophisticated |obb| wgr| tom| vfo| zcn| qlo| xaw| skt| rup| thh| emp| tph| jqm| dio| mhv| bfg| fmc| yec| eer| aej| bjm| tnr| hra| uog| ckm| jcf| euu| lxi| ulx| tht| png| smj| uad| piz| hms| xpz| yyy| xyh| elv| vwg| pxj| qpb| fof| avp| zca| gcq| xsp| llr| qdz| flo|