Abu Firas al-Suri

Radwan Nammous (1950 – April 3, 2016; Arabic: رضوان ناموس), better known by his nom-de-guerre Abu Firas al-Suri (Arabic: أبو فراس السوري, romanized: ʾAbū Firās as-Sūrī), was a Syrian militant and former military officer who was a senior official in Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra Front, serving as the group's spokesman.

[3] al-Suri later travelled to Afghanistan and joined the Afghan Mujahideen to support their cause during the Soviet–Afghan War, where he met Abdullah Azzam, a founding father of modern jihadism, and Osama bin Laden.

He then helped bin Laden and Pakistani jihadists establish Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist organization that remains closely linked to Al-Qaeda to this day.

Al-Suri's role as a senior figure in the al-Nusra Front was not publicly known until March 2014 when he appeared in a Nusra video speaking against ISIL.

[6][7][8] Abu Firas appeared in an al-Nusra video which released more information on him, such as his previous Muslim Brotherhood affiliation and his association with bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam.

[23] "Doğu Türkistan Haber Ajansı" published a Turkish language version[24] of an interview between Nusra Magazine El Risale and Abu Firas al-Suri.

[25] On 3 April 2016, Abu Firas al-Suri (at the age of 65),[26] his son and 20 other al-Nusra Front fighters were killed in a US airstrike in Syria's Idlib province.