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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Al Qaeda-Linked Nusra Front Evacuates Bases In Northwest Syria
2014-09-25
I hope someone overhead was carefully watching where they went...
[Ynet] Al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, has evacuated its bases in populated areas of the Idlib region in northwest Syria after US-led forces carried out air strikes on the group, its fighters said on Wednesday.

Another Syrian Islamist group, Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafist
...also known as Wahhabis, salafists are against innovation in religion or in anything else. They eat the same things every meal of every day and all their children are named Abdullah or Mohammed. Not all salafists are takfiris, but all takfiris are salafists. They are fond of praying five times a day and killing infidels...
s, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...

, has also ordered its followers to evacuate bases, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitoring group.

"Heavy weapons have been moved out of the bases. We do not want civilians to be harmed because of us," one Nusra fighter said in an online message posted on the Internet.

The Observatory also reported the Nusra withdrawal.
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