US authorities dropped the reward shortly before Christmas. As Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara A. Leaf put it: 'it’s a little incoherent...to have a bounty on the guy’s head.'
He's also begun to appoint close intimates and family members to the some of the most important positions in the country. Out goes one closely connected ruling clan; in comes another.
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(Al-Sharaa was better known by his nom de guerre - Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani)