Abu Jaber Shaykh
| Abu Jaber Shaykh أبو جابر الشيخ |
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| Birth name | Hashim al-Shaykh |
| Nickname(s) | Abu Jaber Shaykh |
| Born | 1968 (age 49) Maskanah, Syria |
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| Service/branch | Tahrir al-Sham |
| Years of service | 28 January 2017 – present |
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Hashim al-Shaykh (Arabic: هاشم الشيخ), also known by his nom de guerre Abu Jaber Shaykh (Arabic: أبو جابر الشيخ) is a rebel commander during the Syrian Civil War who is a senior leader of Tahrir al-Sham. He had reportedly resigned from his position in Ahrar al-Sham where he served as a senior commander to help command and direct the merger. Abu Jaber is a Sunni Muslim with a Salafist jihadist ideology, which is reflected in the ideology of the group he leads.
Abu Jaber received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Aleppo. After this, he worked at the Defence Factories near as-Safira. His Salafist activities led to him being arrested by the Syrian government several times. In 2005, he was imprisoned in the Sednaya Prison, infamous for holding a number of other Salafist prisoners who were later released.
On 25 September 2011, during the early phase of the Syrian Civil War, Abu Jaber was released from Sednaya Prison among a number of other Salafist and jihadist political prisoners. He joined Harakat Fajr ash-Sham al-Islamiya and fought alongside the al-Nusra Front. Some time later, he left Harakat Fajr ash-Sham al-Islamiya and formed led a group called the Mus‘ab ibn 'Umair Battalion, which became one of the founding members of Ahrar al-Sham. Abu Jaber is one of the three founding figures of this Group. It became first major Islamist rebel group to be seen through the eyes of the Syrian Arab Army as a major threat.
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