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Who is Abu al-Jolani? The leader of the rebels who overthrew Assad in Syria
2024-12-08 17:21:04 / BOTA
Fighters from anti-government forces occupied Damascus, ending the rule of Bashar al-Assad.
Leading the offensive was Abu Mohammed al-Jolani (who hails from the Golan Heights), who heads Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Hts), a group that has become the most powerful armed opposition force in Syria. HTS founder al-Jolani has sought to distance himself from other armed forces in relation to cross-border operations, focusing on establishing an "Islamic Republic" in Syria. Since 2016, he and his group have billed themselves as "reliable guardians of a Syria freed from al-Assad."
Born in 1982 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where his father worked as an oil engineer, he returned to Syria in 1989, settling near Damascus. Little is known about his time in Damascus before he moved to Iraq in 2003, where he joined Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Arrested in 2006 and in solitary confinement for five years, al-Jolani established al-Qaeda's Syrian column, the al-Nusra Front, which increased its influence in opposition-held areas, particularly Idlib.
Al-Jolani in those years coordinated with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the head of the "Islamic State in Iraq" of Al Qaeda, which later became ISIS (ISIS).
In a television interview given in 2014, he declared that Syria should be governed according to Islamic law and that the country's minorities, Christians and Alawites, would not be welcomed. Hts' stated goal is to liberate Syria from Assad's autocratic rule by "driving Iranian militias" out of the country and establishing a state according to its interpretation of "Islamic law."
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