Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Martyrdom Operation Upon the Ibn Wardān Checkpoint – City of Ḥamāh
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UPDATE 9/11/12 10:06 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic statement:
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
It is time for the knight to rest… Departure of the Amir of Fatih Al-Islam Organization in Bilad Al-Sham… Mujahid sheikh Abu Hussam Al-Shami
Alhamdulillah who legitimized for His slaves jihad and defending of the honors, and made the swords of the believers raised in the faces of the people Kufr, rejection and avoidance, and peace and blessings be upon His prophet the laughing slayer who said: “The best life is that of the man who holds his horse’s rein in Allah’s way and flies on its back to the places from whence he hears a war cry or the clatter of arms, seeking martyrdom or slaughter on the battlefield”. Narrated by Muslim.
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The caravans of martyrdom continue one after another, and this Ummah is still prolific offering its best sons and the elite of its men for the sake of giving pride the religion and supporting the oppressed slaves of Allah and seeking to defeat the unjust Tawagit.
And to confirm the saying of the Almighty: (Of the believers are men who are true to the covenant which they made with Allah: so of them is he who accomplished his vow, and of them is he who yet waits, and they have not changed in the least) 23 Surah Al-Ahzab.
Fatih Al-Islam Organization in Bilad Al-Sham mourns to the people of Islam in general and Syria in particular, the martyrdom of Amir of Fatih Al-Islam Organization in Bilad Al-Sham Mujahid sheikh Abu Hussam Al-Shami (Abdul-Aziz Al-Korkali) rahimahullah and may He accept him in the martyrs.
The hero Abu Hussam departed raising the banner of Tawhid on the proud land of Sham fighting for the sake of Allah Almighty – we reckon him to be so and we do not recommend anyone before Allah -, he rahimahullah was one of those who work in quietly, and he has departed – may Allah praise him – quietly, and he always made Dua that he be sincere, he didn’t record an audio, or have a picture taken for him, and he was very eager for his security.
It is like Bishr Al-Hafi mourned him by saying: “It is sufficient that some dead people revive the hearts by mentioning them” and that is the blood of the martyr as we knew it in the fields of jihad… “A light and fire” A light to glow the path for us to continue the march and a fire on the enemies of Allah that open for them the doors of hell fire…
The mujahid hero Abu Hussam was a torch of activity that doesn’t goes off, going from one battlefield to another, and from one front to another in our beloved Sham, and he departed to his Lord when he attained full strength and reached 40 years, which he spent most of his life in the fields of pride and dignity and the factories heroism and championship.
He was harmed for the sake of Allah many times, and was arrested by the agencies Nusayri Tagut and its intelligence and aerial intelligence several times, and he tasted the pain of prison, bitterness of imprisonment, being far away from the family and loved ones and his prison only made him more solid and energetic in the jihad of this criminal regime.
Ask about him throughout the Golan, the plateaus of Daraa, Damascus neighborhoods and the groves of Al-Ghouta, this is its pure soil that witness that it was watered by his pure blood, and thus the tree of Khilafah only stands on the blood of the heroes.
Our martyr has departed to his Lord patient Murabit after a clash in an ambush that was set by the aggressive regime forces in Al-Sham on the Damascus – Daraa road after he was steadfast and refused to surrender to the enemies of Allah to tempt him from his Tawhid and jihad.
Let the mourning women cry on those similar to Abu Hussam, he departed in humility so that tears be shed on him and the decision of the matter, before and after these events is only with Allah, and all matters return to Allah.
O’ Allah accept him a martyr for your sake, and grant him happily the highest Firdaus , and aid us to carry the banner after him unerringly.
Fatih Al-Islam Organization
Tuesday 17 Shawal 1433 A.H.
Corresponding 2 September 2012
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Fataḥ al-Islām — “On the Martyrdom of the Amīr of Fataḥ al-Islām in the Land of Bilād ash-Shām Abū Ḥussām ash-Shāmī”
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UPDATE 9/30/12 10:40 AM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic statements:
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Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Idlib of Pride and Its Countryside (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Idlib of Pride and Its Countryside #2 (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside #2 (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside #3 (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Storming the Air Defense Brigade ‘1099’ in Rural Aleppo (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Martyrdom Operation – To Avenge the Massacre in Dārayyā in the City of Ḥamāh of Redemption (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in Damascus and Its Countryside (En)
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Idlib of Pride and Its Countryside
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Idlib of Pride and Its Countryside #2
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside #2
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in the City of Aleppo and Its Countryside #3
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Storming the Air Defense Brigade ‘1099’ in Rural Aleppo
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Martyrdom Operation – To Avenge the Massacre in Dārayyā in the City of Ḥamāh of Redemption
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some of the Military Operations in Damascus and Its Countryside
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UPDATE 1/6/13 10:06 AM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic video message and transcription:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl) — “Sorry, Oh Our Syrian Brothers” (En)
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UPDATE 8/28/12 10:21 AM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below video message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Abū Muṣ’ab ‘Abd al-Wadūd (‘Abd al-Malik Drūkdīl) — “Sorry, Oh Our Syrian Brothers” (Ar)
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NOTE: For previous parts in this series see: #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2 and #1.
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Dr. Akram Ḥijāzī — “The Syrian Revolution and the Paths of Internationalization #9″
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UPDATE 9/30/12 10:21 AM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic statements:
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Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation on the al-Bārah Turnpike in the City of al-Bārah – al-Zāwīyyah Mountain (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation at a Traffic Checkpoint on the ash-Shām Expressway – By Khān Shaykhūn (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation at the Bābīlā Checkpoint in the Village of Bābīlā – Ma’arat al-Nu’mān (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation in Revenge for the Massacre in al-Tarīsmah Upon the the Largest Concentration of the Nuṣayrī Shabīḥah in the Center of Ḥawḍ al ‘Āṣī (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Blowing Up the al-Zālqīyyāt Checkpoint With a Car Bomb in Rural Ḥamāh (En)
Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Blowing Up a Recruitment Division – Ḥamāh Governorate (En)
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation on the al-Bārah Turnpike in the City of al-Bārah – al-Zāwīyyah Mountain
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation at a Traffic Checkpoint on the ash-Shām Expressway – By Khān Shaykhūn
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation at the Bābīlā Checkpoint in the Village of Bābīlā – Ma’arat al-Nu’mān
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Heroic Martyrdom Operation in Revenge for the Massacre in al-Tarīsmah Upon the the Largest Concentration of the Nuṣayrī Shabīḥah in the Center of Ḥawḍ al ‘Āṣī
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Blowing Up the al-Zālqīyyāt Checkpoint With a Car Bomb in Rural Ḥamāh
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Blowing Up a Recruitment Division – Ḥamāh Governorate
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UPDATE 8/30/12 3:23 PM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below video message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — “Fulfillment of the Vow #2, Part 1″ (Ar)
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — “Fulfillment of the Vow #2, Part 2″ (Ar)
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NOTE: Click here for the first video in this series.
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Part 2:
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UPDATE 6/17/13 4:41 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic video message and transcription:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Mājid bin Muḥammad al-Mājid — “Message to Lebanon’s Shī’ah” (En)
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UPDATE 8/18/12 1:11 PM: Here is an Arabic transcription of the below video message:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Mājid bin Muḥammad al-Mājid — “Message to Lebanon’s Shī’ah” (Ar)
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UPDATE 8/25/12 2:46 PM: Here is an English translation of the below Arabic statements:
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Military Operations in the City of Damascus and Its Countryside (En)
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Quality Security Operations in the City of Damascus and its Countryside (En)
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Quality Security Operations in the City of Damascus and its Countryside #2 (En)
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Killing the Director of the Political Media Office- ‘Alī ‘Abbās (En)
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Military Operations in the City of Damascus and Its Countryside #2 (En)
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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Military Operations in the City of Damascus and Its Countryside
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Quality Security Operations in the City of Damascus and its Countryside
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Quality Security Operations in the City of Damascus and its Countryside #2
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Killing the Director of the Political Media Office- ‘Alī ‘Abbās
Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Jabhat al-Nuṣrah — Some Military Operations in the City of Damascus and Its Countryside #2
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When the Syrian uprising first began, one of President Bashar al-Assad’s justifications for his harsh crackdowns against protesters and, later, armed elements was because he considered them foreign terrorists. At the time, this claim was ludicrous. The overwhelming majority of individuals were Syrians looking to shake off the yoke of Bashar and his father Hafiz’s decades-long Baathist dictatorship.
While most individuals involved with the current rebellion are still Syrian, foreign fighters now have a very real presence that should worry not only the Assad regime but also Syrians in the opposition. Most foreign fighters go abroad to defend their fellow Muslim brethren from being slaughtered. Once in the area of battle, though, many come into closer contact with hardline jihadis as well as fighters from other countries and are exposed to new ideas. Therefore, portions of foreign fighters are not fighting to help establish a future state for Syrian nationals. Rather, they hope to annex it to be part of their grander aims of establishing emirates that will eventually lead to a reestablished Caliphate, however fanciful this project might be.
At this point, on-the-ground media coverage in English, French, Arabic, German, and other languages reports between 800-2,000 foreigners currently in Syria, accounting for less than 10% of the fighters. Most have come since the beginning of the year: a large contingent comes from the states surrounding Syria: Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan, while a smaller North African contingent hails from Libya, Tunisia, and Algeria. The presence of Westerners at this point has been minimal.
These individuals are linking up with not only the Free Syrian Army (FSA) but also jihadi organizations.The Abdullah Azzam Brigades and Fatah al-Islam, both of them Lebanese jihadi organizations, have entered the fray. So, too, have less-established, but growing organizations like Jabhat al-Nusrah, believed to be the strongest jihadi actor in Syria, as well as Ahrar ash-Sham. Another group, Liwa al-Ummah, comprising 90 percent Syrian fighters, is led by the Irish-Libyan Mahdi al-Harati, previously a commander in the Tripoli Brigade that helped topple the Qadhafi regime a year ago in Libya.
What is problematic with all of this is that although jihadis remain a small portion of the resistance, many have past experience fighting in jihads in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Libya. Therefore, they have sharper skills as well as connections to networks of funding and weapons, which the FSA has dearly needed in the face of lack of support from the international community. As a consequence, jihadi fighters can be force-multipliers as was seen in Iraq during the height of the insurgency against the United States. FSA fighters, in media interviews, explain that because of jihadi experiences, resources, and technologies they have started to begrudgingly work with them, even if they consider them extreme and do not believe in their end goals.
Online jihadis have also posted videos on their forums showing how some jihadi brigades have coordinated operations with elements of the FSA in places like Aleppo. This, however, can cause cross-pollination in ideology and radicalize factions within the FSA. It could also turn these different groups against one another once the fighting ends against the Assad regime, creating further instability in a country looking to regain normalcy and transitioning to a better future.
Unfortunately, this challenge from the jihadis will not go away any time soon. As can be seen in Iraq, although jihadis there are weak compared to a few years ago, the residue from the fighting lingers, continuing to be a spoiler. Therefore, it is imperative that the international community not only work up a plan for dealing with jihadis in Syria post-Assad, but also work with the opposition to help eject these foreign and poisonous elements, which will do more harm than good for Syria’s future.
