The leader of the rebel coalition that seized Hama today sent a message signing, for the first time, his real name after years of using the pseudonym Abu Mohammed al-Julani. “We congratulate the people of Hama for their victory,” he said in the message, which was accompanied by a photo of Julani and signed by “Commander Ahmed al-Shareh.” Julani, the head of the radical Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), was referring to the capture of Hama, four days after the rebels seized most of Aleppo, Syria’s second most populous city. The message was posted on the rebels’ Telegram channel In a 2021 interview with US public television PBS, Julani confirmed that his real name is Ahmed al-Shareh and explained that his nickname refers to his family’s origins in the Syrian Golan, most of which has been annexed by Israel. 42-year-old Julani said […]
Source: News Beast
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