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parts of what are now Jordan," Blank explains. "The S' in
the Arabic is "al-Sham."
Al-Sham, as The New York Times explained in June, "is the classical Arabic ... Syria-but-not-just-"Syria."
ISIL
The phrase preferred by the Obania administration translates "al-Sham"as "the Levant,"another name for the same region — one that ... Arabic shorthand for the group known as: al-Dawla al-Islamiya ti Iraq wa al-Sham,
commonly used in the Arab world and among many Arab media outlets and politicians
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PLAN ON IT
According to Israeli authorities, the recent plot began when Ariv
al-Sham, a Gaza-based al Qaeda operative who worked for
Zawahiri, recruited three men to take ... mere months in all -- the plot
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developed. "Abu-Sara and Al-Sham coordinated a trip to Syria,
and money transfers. This all happened very quickly ... have no organizational relationship with it."
Meanwhile, other Islamist groups, such as Ahrar al-Sham,
remain independent even as they share some ideological
underpinnings with al Qaeda. Today, the jihadi
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groups announced a merger with the former al-
Qaida affiliate in Syria, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (JFS). The new alliance, named the
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Liberation of the Levant ... Committee), is now fighting against
Ahrar al-Sham, a powerful rebel group on the ground.
As fighting continues on the ground in Syria, the United States dealt a devastating
blow
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joined forces with the murderous, al Qaeda-
affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which
controls much of northern Syria and the Iraqi cities of Fallujah,
Mosul ... along the Tigris River, the conquering army, called the Islamic
State of Iraq and al-Sham, posted a photograph on Twitter. It
showed one of its fighters—a Chechen volunteer
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June 2014 -- Beirut, Lebanon — Fighters loyal to the Islamic
State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) have at times been as close as
six miles to Baghdad, according to Iraqi ... told Senators in a classified
briefing this week. The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)
also has its eyes on Jordan; in fact, its jihadists are already
Tweeting
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such as al-Qaeda, Jabhat al-Nusra and the
Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.
Kurdish writer Kurtulus Taviz, who knows the PICK well, wrote, "What is
important here
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