The administration of outgoing President Joe Biden stopped offering on Friday a reward for information leading to the capture of Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani), the de facto leader of Syria.
Sharaa, who abandoned his jihadist nom de guerre this month, is the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadist terrorist organization. American officials did not appear to remove HTS from the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organization but did agree to stop offering incentives for Sharaa’s capture following a meeting between the jihadi chief and a delegation of senior State Department officials on Friday.
HTS is an offshoot of al-Qaeda, formerly known as the Nusra Front. While it has a storied history as a Sunni jihadist terror gang, HTS
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