Syria's Sharaa: Fighter To Interim Head Of State
Syria's Ahmed Al Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his group led a lightning offensi ...
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Jordan hangs two militants including Sajida al-Rishawi
The other was said to be Ziad Karbouli, a former aide to the deceased leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to reports from Jordan, Jordan had sought to swap the woman ...
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Syria's Sharaa: jihadist to interim head of state
Sharaa was appointed Wednesday to lead Syria for an unspecified transitional period, and has been tasked with forming an ...
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Iraq: Four dead in car blast as interim Prime Minister aide executed by Zarqawi group
Meanwhile, supporters of Iraq's most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, have posted a video on the Internet of their killing of a candidate in Iraq's elections from the party of interim Prime ...
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Who is rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, named interim president of Syria?
He joined Al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and was subsequently detained for five years, preventing him from rising through the ranks of the jihadist organisation. In March 2011 ...
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Syria’s President reveals past in Iraqi prisons
Sharaa, revealed in a podcast with Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart that he was imprisoned in Iraq, moving between four ...
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Who is Ahmad al-Sharaa? Islamist rebel leader named Syria’s interim president
He later joined al-Qaeda in Iraq, where he fought under Abu Musab al-Zarqawi before being detained by U.S. forces. In 2011, after Syria’s civil war erupted, he founded the Al-Nusra Front—al ...