“On Mar. 17, Al Nusrah Front leader Abu Muhammad al Julani released a statement commemorating the fifth anniversary of the uprising against Bashar al Assad’s regime. ‘We congratulate the people of al Sham [Syria] and the Islamic Ummah [worldwide community of Muslims] on the pass of five years of their blessed revolution and their blessed jihad,’ Julani wrote, according to a translation by SITE Intelligence Group.”
Source: Al Qaeda’s strategy five years into the Syrian revolution | The Long War Journal
