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 ...

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 ...

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, who heads an Islamist force called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, accused deposed President Bashar al-Assad of sowing division in the country during his 24-year rule.

The sudden collapse of the long-standing Assad regime in Syria last December unleashed a wave of trouble for most Syrians, ...

And the oath from Al Nusra chief Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani came after Zawahiri urged the Syrian group to replace Assad's government with an Islamic state, angering other rebels, who are fighting an ...

What Jerusalem knows and Foggy Bottom has yet to learn is that the Middle East is a bunch of tribal factions, warlords and gangs pretending to be countries, but all are some version of Al-Jawlani ...

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 ...