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Calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, instead of his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria “a farm for Iran’s greed.”
The leader of Syria’s Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group that headed a lightning rebel offensive snatching Damascus from government control, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, address a crowd at the capital’s landmark Umayyad Mosque (AFP)
The leader of Syria’s biggest rebel faction in his first public appearance since the fall of Bashar Assad calls it “a victory to the Islamic nation.” In his first public appearance since fighters entered the Damascus suburbs Saturday, Abu Mohammed al-Golani visited the Syrian capital’s sprawling Umayyad Mosque.
Now calling himself by his given name, Ahmad al-Sharaa, instead of his nom de guerre, he told hundreds of people that Assad had made Syria “a farm for Iran’s greed.”
(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – Associated Press)
- Location :
Damascus, Syria
