Al-Julani speaks from Damascus’s historic Ummayad Mosque, tells Syrians that building a new country will be ‘hard work’. The leader of the main Syrian opposition armed group that seized Syria’s capital, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, has said the Syrian people are the “rightful owners” of the country after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, and declared a “new history” has been …
CNN — Abu Mohammad al-Jolani’s road to Damascus has been long. It is no surprise that the Islamist rebel chose Damascus’s venerated Umayyad Mosque – not a TV studio, nor newly absented presidential palace, but a place of towering religious significance, which at 1,300 years old is one of the world’s most ancient mosques – to deliver that message. “This …
