March 26, 2021 - It’s clear the Security Council has a serious responsibility here. And the fact that nearly every member of this Council is co-hosting this meeting shows that, in theory, we all agree. But we owe it to our slain and injured peacekeepers to turn these words into action.

July 28, 2016 - In response to the proliferation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used by counterinsurgents, Peter Singer discusses the evolution, history, and future of these weapons on the battlefield, and examines their possible use by domestic terrorists.

December 20, 2024 - Due to the successes that were ... Islamic State [of Iraq and Syria], or ISIS. However, Jolani rebuffed this because he knew that Baghdadi was trying to begin liquidating opposition activists with assassinations and going against other rebel groups....

December 30, 2024 - Syrian dictator was seen by Tony Blair as a potential bulwark against terrorism in Iraq, newly declassified files confirm.

December 18, 2024 - Jolani — whose real name is Ahmed Hussein al-Shar’a — was born in 1982 in Saudi Arabia to parents who fled the Golan Heights area of Syria after the 1967 Israeli invasion. In 2003, he went to Iraq to fight against American forces. After three years of war, he was captured by the U.S.

December 9, 2024 - For over a year leading up to the ... Jolani faced protests in Idlib from hardline Islamists as well as Syrian activists. Critics compared his rule to Assad's, accusing HTS of authoritarianism, suppressing dissent and silencing critics. Protesters labelled HTS's security forces as "Shabbiha", a term used to describe Assad's loyalist henchmen. They further alleged that HTS deliberately avoided meaningful combat against government ...

1 week ago - Yet CNN admits that Jolani/Sharaa himself - Syria's new self-appointed president - is a foreign fighter with clear past links to ISIS: Al-Sharaa became a Syrian “foreign fighter” in his early 20s, crossing into Iraq to fight the Americans when they invaded the country in the spring of 2003.

December 11, 2024 - He announced he would do business ... to stay in their jobs to keep the country functioning. This doesn’t make al-Jolani or Ahmed al-Sharaa as he now wants to be called (his real name rather than his nom de guerre), a Kissinger-style diplomat whom the world can embrace as a long-awaited saviour. However, he only had to look back 21 years to see what the Americans did when the ...

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani has worked for years to rebrand himself, but has he truly broken from his extremist past?

December 30, 2024 - One of the most successful political warfare weapons used against American society is DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). Those who wield it know their goal.

August 18, 2022 - As the documentary reports, Jolani’s life has been a roadmap of Islamist militancy in Iraq and Syria. He battled U.S. forces in Iraq and was jailed by the Americans. He rose through the ranks in the group then known as the Islamic State of Iraq, or ISI, and founded an Al Qaeda affiliate in ...

December 3, 2024 - Abu Mohammad al-Jolani's and his Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir ash-Sham have reinvigorated the rebellion against Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

As with most of his generation, the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath were very influential for Jolani, speaking directly to his psychology. Carrying out an attack against the US - the greatest power in the world - on its own soil was an “exceptional” achievement by “exceptional” people ...

March 19, 2024 - Protests demanding the ousting of al-Jolani and the dissolution of his Security Apparatus in areas under HTS control continue for the fourth consecutive week.

Husain Haqqani appears on The John Batchelor Show to talk about the crisis in Syria and Israel’s response.

December 30, 2024 - TEHRAN – The leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group that led the offensive toppling President Bashar al-Assad’s government less than a month ago, has asserted that his forces averted a regional conflict that could have resulted in direct combat between Israeli troops and Iraqi ...

February 15, 2021 - It’s unclear whether his parents — his father used to work in the Ministry of Oil, and his mother was a geography teacher — or his alleged jail time in Iraq and Syria somewhere between 2003 and 2011 impacted his religious education and ideological foundations. Like his father, who once reportedly sought refuge in Iraq around the dissolution of the Egyptian and Syrian political union in the early 60s, Jolani travelled to Iraq in his early twenties about the time of the American ...

HTS leader Jolani was directly asked if he plans to intervene against Israel’s attacks on Syria and its occupation of southern Syrian...

December 6, 2024 - Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Islamist rebel alliance that has captured swathes of Syria in a lightning offensive, is an extremist who has adopted a more moderate posture to try achieve his goals.