Abu Humam al-Shami

Samir Abdel Latif Hijazi , known as Abu Humam al-Shami or Faruq al-Suri He became the head of Hurras al-Din in February 2018,

Early life Abu Humam al-Shami is of Syrian origin. He traveled to Afghanistan between 1998 and 1999 and is believed to have spent a year at Al Ghuraba training camp, run by Abu Musab al-Suri. He attended al-Qaeda's Al Farouq training camp, where he finished second in his class. He was later made a trainer at Al Farouq training camp and afterwards he was appointed the emir over the region of the Kandahar Airport training camp by Saif al-Adel. and in 2007 was arrested and imprisoned in Lebanon for five years.

Syrian Civil War

He was released from prison in Lebanon in 2012 and immediately traveled to Syria to participate in the Syrian Civil War. He joined al-Nusra Front and became the group's overall military chief. In August 2016, it was reported on social media that al-Shami informed Nusra in letter he wouldn't join Jabhat Fateh al Sham.

Relations with ISIL In 2014, al-Nusra was engaged in hostilities with rival jihadist faction, ISIL. Al-Shami was said to have spearheaded efforts in order to negotiate a ceasefire. He met with one of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi's chief deputies. Baghdadi's deputy supposedly told al-Shami that either ISIL will annihilate everyone else, or ISIL itself will be annihilated. When al-Shami suggested that their differences could be settled in a common sharia court, Baghdadi's deputy replied that they will bring their disagreements to a sharia court when the fight to the death is over.

The al-Nusra Front finally brokered a ceasefire with ISIL, when al-Shami met with Abu Omar al-Shishani, the Chechen ISIL commander. Before the deal could be ratified however, ISIL detonated a car bomb killing several top al-Nusra leaders. The bombing presumably brought the peace process to a halt. His death was never officially confirmed by the Pentagon or al-Nusra Front. Reports of al-Shami's death were undermined when he was added to the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice wanted list on 12 September 2019.