Former White House Middle East Envoy. A Chief Architect of peace between Israel & its Arab neighbors. Connecting US & Israeli Companies to the Middle East & elsewhere. Author of In the Path of ...

after ousting Bashar al-Assad earlier this month—hails from the village of Abu Rasin in Syria's Hasakah countryside. Over the years, Shaibani has used several aliases and lived in Turkey until 2024.

Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the militant leader whose stunning insurgency toppled Syria's President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image, renouncing longtime ties to al ...

He returned to Syria once the uprising began, sent by the leader of the Islamic State group in Iraq at the time - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi - to build up al Qaeda's presence. The U.S. designated Golani ...

As a new form of government starts to take shape in Syria, the armed group that helped topple former President Bashar al-Assad will play a significant role, and the group's leader, Abu Mohammad al ...

Ahmed Al Sharaa, an Islamist militant in his late 20s, moved back to Syria from Iraq in 2011 with six men and a monthly stipend of $50,000 from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would go on to become the ...

Saul Loebmandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Once head of al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is now the most powerful man in the country. He is leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ...