The documentary that followed, The Jihadist, investigated Jolani’s origins, his group, his fight with Assad and his ambitions for Syria. As the documentary reported, over most of two decades ...
The group’s leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani — a Syrian Islamist militant labeled a terrorist by the U.S. since 2013 — was featured in our 2021 documentary The Jihadist. On Dec. 1, National ...
After the fast moving events of the past week when rebels took major cities and gained control of Syria, today the extent of the brutality of the Assad regime was revealed by the liberation of a ...