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The Grand Turk
Turkey aiding al-Nusra ahead of major Aleppo strike: Russia
2016-04-12
[217.218.67.231] As The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
continues to aid 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 .. ...
Front, some 10,000 Death Eaters of the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group have converged around Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo, says Russia's General Staff.

"Despite progress achieved in securing a ceasefire, Turkey continues to funnel men and arms to al-Nusra Front," said Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of the Main Operative Department of the Russian General Staff, on Monday.

On February 27, a US- and Russia-sponsored ceasefire was brokered between the Syrian government and dozens of krazed killer groups operating in the country. ISIS and al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra are excluded from the truce.

"Al-Nusra’s men and materiel are being allowed to pass through areas that the US has designated as being controlled by the opposition," he added while noting that Russia has on multiple occasions called on the US to aid in limiting al-Nusra’s operations.
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