As al-Qaeda’s relevance and influence wanes, Nusra Front is positioning itself as the natural heir of jihadi ideology.
![Members of al Qaeda''s Nusra Front cheer in the northwestern city of Ariha, after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the area in Idlib province [REUTERS]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/72f759d30fc74914b15754bc7f7c1b86_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As al-Qaeda’s relevance and influence wanes, Nusra Front is positioning itself as the natural heir of jihadi ideology.
![Members of al Qaeda''s Nusra Front cheer in the northwestern city of Ariha, after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the area in Idlib province [REUTERS]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/72f759d30fc74914b15754bc7f7c1b86_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The Assad regime gets away with heinous crimes as the world turns to Twitter to save Palmyra’s centuries-old ruins.
![Smoke rises behind archaeological ruins in Palmyra, Syria [AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/f0632700cf8348d699cec274ab81633d_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
To save Syria from descending into an all-out civil war, now is the time to manage the transition process.
![The aftermath of a shelling by warplanes allegedly loyal to Syria''s President Bashar al-Assad in Idlib [REUTERS]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cdfbde03bee041a29b00113e7032f395_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Seymour Hersh’s latest report on OBL blends heavy doses of his own imagination with anonymous sources.
![A still image from a video tape showing the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in an unspecified location [Getty]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/9671d823dd3246d2b08cd1ed4a0470c3_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Al Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief Ahmad Zaidan says the accusations against him are a threat to journalism as a whole.
