The military chief leading Syria’s rebel forces who ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has roots in Islamic extremist groups — including past ties al Qaeda. Now, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — who ...

In an interview, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the Islamist rebel heading an offensive moving toward Damascus, said the operation was a long time coming. By Raja Abdulrahim Raja Abdulrahim reports on the ...

On December 8, 2024, Syrian rebels stunned the world when they seized Damascus and toppled the government of Bashar al-Assad, more than 13 years into the country’s brutal war. Spearheading the rebel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this February 2023 photo, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group's chief Abu Mohammad al-Jolani checks the damage following an ...

When interviewed, al-Jolani asserted that his family was “originally from the now-occupied Golan Heights,” and that his paternal grandfather was “displaced from the Golan in 1967 after the Israeli ...

Standing before a cheering crowd in Damascus’ historic Umayyad Mosque, the broad and bearded Abu Mohammad al-Jolani declared a new chapter in Syria’s history. The leader of the rebellion that toppled ...

Former president Bashar al-Assad is perhaps best known for waging crimes against humanity on his population, including the use of chemical weapons, on multiple occasions since the Syrian civil war ...