Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (Arabic: جبهة فتح الشام‎‎; abbrev. JFS), formerly known as the Al-Nusra Front (Arabic: جبهة النصرة لأهل الشام‎‎, transcription: Jabhat an-Nuṣrah li-ʾAhli ash-Shām, transliteration: Ģʌbhë alNỽƨrë lᴉÅhlᴉ alŜam, The Support Front for the People of the Levant, often abbreviated to JN or JaN) , transliteration: Ģʌbhë Fʌtħ alŜam) and al-Qaeda in Syria or al-Qaeda in the Levant, is a Salafist jihadist organization fighting against the forces of the Syrian government in the Syrian Civil War, with the aim of establishing an Islamic state in the country. It was the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda until 2016, and also operates in neighbouring Lebanon. In early 2015, the group became one of the major components of the powerful jihadist joint operations room named the Army of Conquest, w