Zahran Alloush

Sheikh Zahran Alloush is a Syrian Salafist rebel leader active during the Syrian Civil War. He is the military chief of the Islamic Front and is described as one of the most powerful persons in rebel-held Syria. Alloush called for the cleansing of all Alawites and Shiites in Damascus.

Biography
Zahran Alloush is the son of the Saudi-based religious scholar sheikh Abdullah Mohammed Alloush. He was released from prison by the Syrian authorities in mid-2011 for salafist activism. Shortly after that, he formed the Liwa al-Islam (later Jaysh al-Islam).

He was wounded on 20 February 2013 when a missile hit his headquarters near Damascus.