THREAD - How we know the commander-in-chief of the Syrian militant group Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was in Aleppo today. 1/ This is a grab of a video posted on Telegram at 1323 GMT today, claiming the man highlighted in red is Abu Mohammad al-Julani, head of HTS. Let's go through the where, when, who.
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