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Statesman or Jihadist? What to Make of Syria’s De Facto Leader Abu Mohammed Al-Golani
In the spring of 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the man who would soon become the world’s most notorious terrorist as the leader of a new group called ISIS – saw an opening. At the time Syria was ...
Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of the insurgency that toppled Syria's Assad?
Insurgents control the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family's iron hand, it is an open question how Syria will be governed ...