When Jolani was released from U.S. custody after five years, AQI had rebranded as Islamic State in Iraq under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, later notorious for his brutal attempts to build a caliphate in ...

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Since its inception, the Al-Nusra Front has been led by Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a, better known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani ... he worked closely with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish Al-Qaeda ...

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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 ...

Former al Qaeda member Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as ... doing so with the backing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would later become the founder ...

Read full article: Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani ... one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (Ahmed Hussein al-Shara), the leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, began visiting allied regimes after ...

Syrian armed opposition leader Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani), whose forces seized power in Damascus, announced his intention to disband Syrian security ...