Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has dropped that nom de guerre associated with his jihadist past, and been using his real name, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in official communiques issued since ...

1. Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, one of the largest rebel groups mounting the offensive against the Assad regime. 2. He broke with Islamic State in 2012 and cut ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani boarded a bus in Damascus in March 2003, heading across the desert to Baghdad with fellow volunteers eager to repel the looming American invasion of Iraq. When he returned ...

Zifzafa is a digital tool that acts to advocate for the sonic self-determination of the Jawlanis — the people of the occupied ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Islamist rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani positioned himself as a statesman who can unite Syria and responsibly manage relations with its neighbors, in a meeting Monday with ...

Jawlani speaking to supporters inside Ummayad Mosque, after the fall of Damascus The Syrian rebel leader known as Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani has dropped that nom de guerre, which is associated with ...

But the plot thickened when Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, Syria’s de facto leader and former al-Qaeda affiliate, entered the scene. In an interview with Vatican media, Jawlani praised Pope Francis ...

The U.S. has already dropped a $10 million bounty on Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, the Islamist leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, the Sunni Islamist group that began as an offshoot of al Qaeda ...

According to the sources, in early October Jabhat al-Nusra’s chief Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani met with field commanders in the west of the Idlib Province. The aim was to convince militants to move ...

Muhammad al-Jawlani is no proxy. The more land he takes the more independent he can be. Turkey will be happy to see Assad given a bloody nose, but is ambiguous about HTS’ success. Officially Ankara ...

These include Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Islamist leader Abu Mohammed Al Jawlani who previously had affiliations with both al-Qaida and ISIS, the western-backed and Kurd-led Syrian ...