[An Nahar] Participants in a fragile ceasefire in Syria need to give peace a chance, U.S. officials said Sunday, following reports of truce violations on its second day."Setbacks are inevitable," the senior administration official said. "Even under the best of circumstances, we don’t expect the violence to end immediately. In fact, we are certain that there will continue to be fighting, in part because of organizations like ISIL and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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The ceasefire deal brokered by Moscow and Washington excludes territory held by the jihadist groups the 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....
, also known as ISIL, and the al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra. The two groups together control more than half of Syria.