...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant...
Front, including its general military commander Abu Humam al-Shami, have been killed in an kaboom in the northwest province of Idlib on Thursday, Al Arabiya News Channel reported.
Al-Shami is one of the most senior Nusra Front figures to be killed since it formed in 2012 and has fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, Rooters news agency reported, quoting sources said.
Reports said the kaboom was caused by a coalition
The Nusra Front has fought Western-backed rebels this year, seizing their territory and forcing them to disarm so as to
consolidate its power in northern Syria.
Hazzm, one of the last remnants of non-jihadist opposition to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
in northern Syria, dissolved itself
last week after weeks of fighting with the Nusra Front.
After Thursday's attack, the Nusra Front told its members not to provide information to the media, the Rooters sources said.
The weakness of the mainstream Syrian opposition and the growing power of the Nusra Front and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
has
complicated diplomatic efforts to end the Syrian conflict that has killed around 200,000 people.