Khattab was identified as the administrative amir of the group as early as 2014, a position he ascended to after serving as a senior leader and member of al-Nusrah Front’s shura council. In late 2013, ...

The latest appointment made by Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, is Anas Khattab, a 37-year-old from the city of Jiroud in the Damascus countryside, who was made the country's new intelligence ...