Abdul Jashari
Abdul Samrez Jashari[1] (Arabic: عبدل صمريز يشاري, Macedonian: Абдул Самрез Јашари; born 25 September 1976), also known by his nom de guerre Abu Qatada al-Albani (Arabic: أبو قتادة الألباني), is a Macedonian Albanian militant who is the leader of Xhemati Alban, an Albanian Islamist armed group allied with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) during the Syrian civil war. Prior to 2017, Jashari and Xhemati Alban were allied to HTS's predecessor Al-Nusra Front.[2] Following the fall of the Assad regime and the establishment of the Syrian transitional government, Jashari was promoted to the rank of colonel.[1][3]
Jashari was designated a terrorist by the United States Treasury Department in 2016 for his affiliation with al-Nusra.[4]
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