Al-Nusra Front
Jihadist organization in the Syrian Civil War
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| 2021 | The Times published an article alleging Qatar's involvement in a secret money laundering operation sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Al-Nusra Front terrorists in Syria. |
| 2021 | Heysem Topalca, a Syrian suspect in the 2013 chemical weapons case, died. |
| February 27 2018 | Al-Qaeda loyalists, including Sami al-Oraydi, establish Hurras al-Din as an anti-HTS front in northwestern Syria after mobilizing Al-Qaeda personnel. |
| January 28 2017 | Following violent clashes with Ahrar al-Sham and other rebel groups, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham merges with four other groups to form Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). |
| January 21 2017 | Five factions from Ahrar al-Sham (Jaish al-Ahrar, al-Bara, Dhu Nurayn, al-Sawa'iq, and Usud al-Har Battalion) joined the al-Nusra Front. Simultaneously, two al-Nusra Shura Council members from Aleppo left the group. |
| January 19 2017 | US airstrikes by Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bombers struck the Sheikh Suleiman military base in western Aleppo, killing at least 110 al-Qaeda fighters, including senior leader Abu Hasan al-Taftanaz. |
| January 1 2017 | A US drone strike killed Abu Omar al-Turkistani, a senior Al-Qaeda member and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham military commander, along with three other JFS members near Sarmada in Idlib Governorate. |
| December 2016 | During the 17th Aleppo offensive, al-Nusra Front arrested a media activist at a field hospital, interrogated him at their headquarters, and were the first to leave Aleppo during the evacuation, taking kidnapped prisoners with them. |
| October 9 2016 | Jund al-Aqsa merged with Jabhat Fatah al-Sham following internal conflicts with other rebel groups. |
| October 3 2016 | A US airstrike killed Ahmad Salama Mabruk, an Egyptian JFS and al-Qaeda commander, in Jisr al-Shughur. |
| September 8 2016 | An airstrike killed top JFS military commander Abu Hajer al-Homsi (Abu Omar Saraqeb) and several other Army of Conquest commanders in Aleppo Governorate countryside. Russia claimed responsibility for the strike. |
| August 2016 | Lindsey Snell escaped to Turkey's Hatay Province and was subsequently arrested by Turkish authorities for being in a military exclusion zone. |
| August 31 2016 | Hezbollah attacked a Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS) outpost in the Qalamoun Mountains near Arsal, Lebanon, killing multiple fighters. |
| July 2016 | Jabhat Fatah al-Sham kidnapped American journalist Lindsey Snell in northern Syria. |
| July 2016 | Amnesty International released a report accusing al-Nusra Front of torture, child abduction, and summary executions. |
| July 2016 | Al-Nusra Front's fighting force was estimated to be composed of approximately 30% foreign fighters and 70% native Syrian fighters. |
| July 29 2016 | Al-Nusra leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani announced the group changed its name to Jabhat Fath al Sham, claiming 'no affiliation to any external entity', though analysts viewed this as a cosmetic change. |
| May 12 2016 | Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham rebels massacred 42 civilians and seven NDF militiamen in the Alawite village of Zara'a in Southern Hama, also kidnapping up to 70 people. |
| February 2016 | Charles Lister reported that Jabhat al-Nusra successfully recruited at least 3,000 Syrians into its ranks between February and June. |
| February 25 2016 | Al-Nusra Front withdrew from the town of Sarmada near the Turkish border in Idlib Province to prevent Russian airstrikes after the Syria ceasefire implementation. |
| February 22 2016 | Two Damascus-based jihadist groups swore allegiance to al-Nusra Front. |
| February 17 2016 | Nearly half of Jund al-Aqsa (400 fighters) joined al-Nusra Front. |
| January 24 2016 | Ahrar ash-Sham expelled al-Nusra Front from the Syrian town of Harem, followed by clashes in Salqin. |
| December 2015 | Nusra fighters celebrated the ransoming and exchange of Lebanese army prisoners in the town of Arsal, Lebanon. |
| December 2015 | Two Army of Revolutionaries fighters were beheaded by Nusra fighters. |
| November 2015 | Al-Nusra Front praised the Paris attacks, expressing support for attacks on 'infidels'. |
| November 2015 | Al-Nusra fighters and Turkish-supported Syrian Turkmen Brigades engaged in heavy fighting against Syrian government forces, Shiite militias, and Russian air force in northwestern Latakia Governorate. |
| October 2015 | Al-Nusra offered a bounty of three million euros for killing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as announced by al-Julani. |
| October 2015 | Al-Nusra militant Abu Ubaid Al-Madani released a video warning Russians, demonstrating the group's aggressive stance against Russian involvement in Syria. |
| October 2015 | Al-Julani called for indiscriminate attacks on Alawite villages in Syria, specifically targeting towns and villages in Latakia. |
| September 2015 | The Pentagon confirmed that US-trained New Syrian Forces rebels gave six pickup trucks and ammunition to al-Nusra Front in exchange for safe passage. |
| September 2015 | Al-Nusra Front absorbed Katibat Imam al-Bukhari, an Uzbek al-Qaeda affiliated group. The group attacked al-Fu'ah and Kafriya, and participated in the Jisr al-Shughur offensive. |
| September 2015 | Russian air strikes began targeting al-Nusra Front positions in Syria, marking the start of direct military engagement against the group. |
| July 2015 | First issue of Al Risalah magazine published by al-Nusra Front. |
| June 2015 | Al-Julani declared there was no foreseeable solution with ISIL, suggesting that continued conflict was inevitable unless ISIL repented. |
| June 10 2015 | Al-Nusra fighters shot and killed at least 20 Druze civilians in a village after a dispute over house expropriation. |
| May 2015 | Al-Nusra was estimated to have 10,000 fighters in Southern Syria, with superior weaponry compared to the Free Syrian Army. |
| May 28 2015 | Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani denies the existence of the Khorasan group in an interview with Al-Jazeera. |
| May 7 2015 | A Turkish official stated that Turkey and Saudi Arabia were bolstering Ahrar al-Sham to put pressure on Nusra to renounce its ties to al-Qaeda. |
| May 4 2015 | Muhamed Nabih Osman suggested that a split from al-Qaeda would happen soon, noting the organization consisted of two different parts with local fighters less interested in global jihad. |
| April 2015 | Rebel factions in southern Syria initially vowed to distance themselves from al-Nusra Front, but were seen cooperating with them in Daraa days later. |
| March 2015 | Al-Nusra Front joins other Syrian Islamist groups to form the Army of Conquest joint command center. |
| March 2015 | Al-Nusra began coordinating operations with FSA, moderate and conservative Syrian Islamists, and independent jihadist factions during offensives in northern Idlib Governorate. |
| March 9 2015 | Al-Nusra denied all reports of a meeting with Qatar and a potential break-up with al-Qaeda via a statement on Twitter. |
| March 4 2015 | Reuters reported that Qatar and other Gulf states had been encouraging Nusra leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani to abandon al-Qaeda, promising funding if the break-up was carried out. |
| February 2015 | Six Bosnian-Americans were charged with conspiracy to support terrorism for financially supporting Abdullah Ramo Pazara. |
| February 12 2015 | SITE Intelligence Group cited rumors that Nusra leader al-Julani was planning to disassociate from al-Qaeda. |
| 2014 | Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a Bosnian-American, reportedly died while fighting with al-Nusra Front. |
| December 2014 | Al-Nusra Front fighters executed a woman by shooting her, accusing her of adultery. |
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