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Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لاهل الشام, romanized: Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-Ahl ish-Sham lit. Front of the Supporters of the People of Syria/the Levant), known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام lit. Front for the Conquest of Syria/the Levant) after July 2016, and also described as al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, was a Salafist jihadist terrorist organization fighting against Syrian government forces in the Syrian Civil War. Its aim was to establish an Islamic state in the country. The group has changed its name several times and merged with and separated from other groups.
Formed in 2012, in November of that year The Washington Post described al-Nusra as "the most aggressive and successful" of the rebel forces. In December 2012, the United States Department of State designated it a foreign terrorist organization, and in April 2013, it became the official Syrian branch of al-Qaeda.In March 2015, the group joined with other jihadist groups to form the Army of Conquest. In July 2016, al-Nusra formally re-branded from Jabhat al-Nusra to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham ("Front for the Conquest of the Levant").On 28 January 2017, following violent clashes with Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel groups, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham merged with four other groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a new Sunni Islamist militant group. Tahrir al-Sham denies being part of al-Qaeda and said in a statement that the group is "an independent entity and not an extension of previous organizations or factions".

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