• Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni (Arabic: علي صدر الدين البيانوني) is a Muslim Brotherhood leader in exile in London. He was born in 1938 in Aleppo and brought...
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  • "The Battle within Syria: An Interview with Muslim Brotherhood Leader Ali Bayanouni". The Jamestown Foundation. 11 August 2005. Retrieved 22 September 2012...
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  • taking over from Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni from August 2010 until 6 November 2014. Mohammad Farouk Tayfour served as his deputy. al-Shaqfeh was born...
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  • Iraq and Jordan. It has been trained by United States Army and hosted at al-Tanf. Founded as an expansion of the Allahu Akbar Brigade by Syrian Arab Army...
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  • Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb (Arabic: حمزة علي الخطيب; October 24, 1997 – May 25, 2011) was a 13-year-old Syrian boy who died while in the custody of the Syrian...
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    Al-Tanf (Arabic: التَّنْف) is a U.S. military base in an American occupied part of the Homs Governorate, Syria. It is located 24km (15 mi) west of the...
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    Ansar al-Islam in Kurdistan (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام له کوردستاندا), simply called Ansar al-Islam (Kurdish: ئەنسارولئیسلام), is a Kurdish Islamist militant...
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    losses". Al-Monitor. 2 May 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2015. Abdallah Suleiman Ali (12 February 2014). "ISIS losing ground in Syria to Jabhat al-Nusra". Al-Monitor...
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    merged with Noor al-Deen al-Zenki, Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna and elements of Ahrar al-Sham to form Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Following...
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    Tahrir al-Sham unilaterally disbanding several SIG-supported local councils across northwestern Syria. The SSG is led by a prime minister (currently Ali Keda...
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    Iranian officials: Hossein Aman Elahi, Sayid Mehdi Jalalati, Ali Agha Babaei, Sayid Ali Salehi Roozbahani, and Mohsen Sedaghat. Zahedi was the most senior...
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    International recognition of the Syrian National Council SyriaSource by Hosam al-Jablawi Has the International Community Succeeded in Creating a Safe Zone...
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  • The National Defence Forces (NDF; Arabic: قوات الدفاع الوطني Quwāt ad-Difāʿ al-Watanī) is a pro-Syrian government militia, that was formed on 1 November...
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  • pro-government militias and founded its own paramilitary wing, the "Al-Aqsa Shield Forces" in 2012. The Al-Aqsa Shield Forces mostly operate in Damascus, especially...
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    July, the coalition elected new leadership. Ahmad Asi Al-Jarba was elected president and Anas Al-Abdah was elected as secretary general. On 14 September...
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  • and Khomeinist political party and paramilitary organization headed by Hadi al-Amiri. The Badr Brigade, formed in 1982 and led by Iranian officers, served...
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    2022-11-16. "Trump Pays Tribute to Americans Killed in Syria Attack". Asharq Al-Awsat. 19 January 2019. Archived from the original on 20 January 2019. Felice...
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  • later settled in Mashhad. In 2013, Tavhid Ibrahim Begli met with Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, during a meeting called "Ulema of the...
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  • ideology of the Islamic Revolution in Iran and regards Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as its supreme leader. A January 2024 report in The Hill indicates...
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  • Kata'ib al-Imam Ali (Arabic: كتائب الإمام علي, Kataʾib al-ʾImām ʿAlīy), also known as the Imam Ali Battalions, are the armed wing of the Islamic Movement...
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    organized by Najaf: Saraya al-Ataba al-Abbasiya, Saraya al-Ataba al-Hussainiya, Saraya al-Ataba al-Alawiya, and Liwa 'Ali al-Akbar, corresponding to Shia...
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    under the name Ansar al-Din Front - Harakat Fajr ash-Sham al-Islamiya On 20 June 2018, al-Murabitin Battalion, Osama Battalion, Abu Ali Yemeni Battalion and...
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    between Jaysh al-Ahrar (an Ahrar al-Sham faction), Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS), Ansar al-Din Front, Jaysh al-Sunna, Liwa al-Haqq, and Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement...
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    argued that "Ahrar Al-Sham started as a Syrian Salafi jihadist group in late 2011". This view was shared by Wilson Center researcher Ali El Yassir who stated...
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  • purpose is to defend the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque (the shrine of Zaynab bint Ali, sister of Imam Hussain and granddaughter of the prophet Muhammad) and other...
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  • belies mercenaries' true intent: to protect Russian interests in Syria". Al-Jabassini, Abdullah (2019). From Insurgents to Soldiers: The Fifth Assault...
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    Al-Assad in Arabic means "the Lion". Assad's paternal grandfather, Ali Sulayman al-Assad, had managed to change his status from peasant to minor notable...
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    Hezbollah member Ali Musa Daqduq who was Khazali's advisor was in charge of their relations with Hezbollah. After these arrests in 2007, Akram al-Kaabi, who...
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    Brotherhood was Ali Sadreddine Al-Bayanouni, who lives as a political refugee in London. Towards the end of the 1930s, the ideas of Hassan al-Banna reached...
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  • mercenaries' were established in the 1980s by Rifaat al-Assad and Namir al-Assad, President Hafez al-Assad's brother and cousin. They were originally concentrated...
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