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the al-Qaeda franchise al-Nusra Front and Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, have long maintained a presence in Idlib. The al-Nusra Front was not particularly interested in the minutiae of governance, leaving local councils to govern themselves. However, in 2013, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammed al-Julani) -- then the emir of al-Nusra -- expressed his belief that the popular support required to establish an Islamic emirate could only be obtained

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