Ahmed al-Sharaa

Notable quotes

“Al-Nusra Front doesn't have any plans or directives to target the West. We received clear orders not to use Syria as a launching pad to attack the US or Europe in order to not sabotage the true mission against the regime. Maybe al-Qaeda does that, but not here in Syria.”
— "Al-Qaeda 'orders Syria's Al-Nusra Front not to attack West', BBC News, 28 May 2015.
“If the Levant is liberated, and if the Muslims come together in a well-guided Islamic government, a well-guided Muslim state that enforces the sharia of Allah Almighty, I will be the first soldier of such a government, and I will be under its jurisdiction. Even Dr. Ayman [al-Zawahiri] will be a soldier serving under the command of such a government [that] enforces all the instructions of Islam.”
— Thomas Joscelyn, "Al Nusrah Front leader refuses to break with al Qaeda", FDD's Long War Journal, 14 December 2015.
“With this spirit … we will not only reach Damascus, but, Allah permitting, Jerusalem will be awaiting our arrival.”
— Danika Newlee, "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS): TNT Terrorism Backgrounder", Center for Strategic and International Studies, 4 October 2018.

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