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Syrian Opposition Heating Up from “Moderate” to Islamist: the Transformation of Jaysh al-Islam

As far as groups in the Syrian conflict are concerned, it was Jaysh al-Islam, or the Army of Islam, and not the Islamic State or even Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch) who first officially declared war on Russia, or rather on its military presence in Syria. The New York Times made this news public in October 2015, although with no reference either to the source or the date of such a statement. The news has flooded Russian media but the group is still hardly known in comparison to...

25.01.2016

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