A Syrian rebel group which has proclaimed loyalty to Al-Qaeda posted an audio recording attributed to its leader on Monday in which he promised a fight back.<\/p>\n
In the recording, Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani also hit out at Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia whose public intervention in the Syrian conflict since late April has been a major factor in recent rebel reverses.<\/p>\n
Julani’s speech, entitled: “The Coming Days are Better Than Those of the Past,” were his first since April 10, SITE Intelligence, which monitored the posting, said.<\/p>\n
In it, the Nusra leader warned Lebanese Shiites not to allow Hezbollah to drag them into a proxy war in Syria on behalf of its Iranian backers.<\/p>\n
“I warn those who claim Shiism in Lebanon about letting Iran drag you into a war that you can’t bare,” SITE quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n
“I say that abandoning Hezbollah and disowning it will save you from woes and disasters that you would do without.”<\/p>\n
Julani also warned other Islamist rebel groups in Syria against the dangers of accepting support from Arab or Western governments.<\/p>\n
“I warn against letting the Levant be dragged into such a game in which victories are kidnapped, blood is wasted and sacrifices go in vain,” he said.<\/p>\n
In Julani’s last public intervention in April, he spoke out against the Al-Qaeda leadership in neighboring Iraq for its attempt to steamroller a merger between jihadists in the two countries.<\/p>\n
He made no reference in his latest speech to the controversy, which sparked a split among Al-Qaeda loyalists inside Syria between Al-Nusra and the rival Al-Qaeda in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n
Both groups are blacklisted as terrorist organizations by Washington.<\/p>\n
Source:Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Syrian rebel group which has proclaimed loyalty to Al-Qaeda posted an audio recording attributed to its leader on Monday in which he promised a fight back.<\/p>\n
In the recording, Al-Nusra Front leader Abu Mohammad al-Julani also hit out at Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia whose public intervention in the Syrian conflict since late April has been a major factor in recent rebel reverses.<\/p>\n
Julani’s speech, entitled: “The Coming Days are Better Than Those of the Past,” were his first since April 10, SITE Intelligence, which monitored the posting, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}