The jihadist leader of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham
, Abu Mus’ab al-Saheli, was killed on Friday when a group of unknown assailants opened fire on him and his associates.Abu Mus’ab, nicknamed "Al-Nusayri", was born to an Alawite family in the Latakia Governorate city of Qurdaha; he would later convert to Sunni Islam and join Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
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