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| US names Syrian group Jund al-Aqsa to terror list |
| 2016-09-22 |
| [IsraelTimes] The United States officially labels the Syrian jihadist rebel group Jund al-Aqsa as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" organization as talks continued on securing a ceasefire in the war-ravaged country. The US State Department says the four-year-old group was originally a unit of the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-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, the al-Qaeda arm in Syria, before splitting off to carry out operations independently. Today, Jund al-Aqsa operates primarily in the Idlib and Hama provinces, but remains "openly allied" with al-Nusra, already designated a terror group two years ago, the State Department says. It says Jund al-Aqsa was behind two suicide kabooms in Idlib in March 2105 and a February 2014 "massacre" of 40 civilians in Maan in central Hama. The designation, and parallel sanctions by the US Treasury Department, forbid US entities and individuals from any transactions with the group. |
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