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Zahran Alloush

1970–2015

Nationality
Syria
Occupation
military personnel

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Sednaya Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Zahran Alloush (Arabic: زَهْرَان عَلُّوش, romanized: Zahrān ʿAllūš, 1971 – 25 December 2015) was a Syrian Islamist rebel leader who was the commander of Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), a major component of the Islamic Front, of which he was the military chief, and was described as one of the most powerful leaders in rebel-held Syria until his death. He was killed in a joint Russian and Syrian airstrike on 25 December 2015 and was succeeded by Essam al-Buwaydhani as head of Jaysh al-Islam.

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