Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations

Jabhat al-Nusra

Designation Status (as of October 6, 2026)

US State Dept FTO	Delisted al-Nusrah Front, aka Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (ANF/HTS), removed July 8, 2025 (official list)
US Treasury OFAC SDN (SDGT)	Not listed official list
UK Proscribed	Listed Al Qa’ida (AQ) since March 2001
EU Terrorist Lists	Listed Al-Nusra Front
Canada Listed Entities	Not listed official list
Australia Listed	Listed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham since April 9, 2022

UK: proscribed under the Al Qa’ida entry (alias orders July 2013 and December 2016).

Checked against the official lists on October 6, 2026. Listing names are quoted as the list gives them. What changed since 2018

Profile written 2016 The profile below is the original Jihad Intel text and has not been updated. Designation status above is current.

Designated as terrorist by: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United Nations, United States

Base of operations: Syria

Background: National Counterterrorism Center
Background: Mapping Militant Organizations (Stanford)

Composed largely of Syrian nationals and commonly referred to as al-Nusra Front ('Support Front'), Jabhat al-Nusra wass an al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadist group active in the Syrian civil war. Vowing to topple President Bashar al-Assad and install a new regime operating under Shari'a, Jabhat al-Nusra employed both guerilla warfare tactics and suicide bombings against Syrian government forces. The organization had a history of links with what became Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), but rejecting then ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's insistence on subsuming Jabhat al-Nusra under his authority, public allegiance to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was 'reaffirmed' directly in April 2013. Citizens of Western countries have fought in the ranks of Jabhat al-Nusra and may pose a security risk if and when they return home. Its media wing was al-Manara al-Baida ("White Minaret").

Despite losing all its assets in eastern Syria to ISIL by July 2014, Jabhat al-Nusra survived and became the leading group in Idlib province in northwest Syria alongside Syrian Salafi group Ahrar al-Sham after the formation of the Jaysh al-Fatah coalition in spring 2015.

Jabhat al-Nusra was subsequently dissolved on 28 July 2016 with a formal renunciation of ties to al-Qaeda in a strategic move guided by al-Qaeda in order to embed the group more deeply in the Syrian insurgency and form a broader coalition to realize al-Qaeda's objectives in Syria. The successor organization is Jabhat Fatah al-Sham.