Zahran Alloush

Zahran Alloush
Zahran Alloush
	Zahran Alloush attending a military parade in eastern Ghouta, 29 April 2015
Born	1971; Douma, Syria
Died	25 December 2015 (aged 43–44); Utaya, Rif Dimashq, Syria
Cause of death	Air strike
Other names	Moon of the jihad
Known for	Commander of Jaysh al-Islam
Military career
Allegiance	Islamic Front ; (November 2013 – December 2015)
Branch	Jaysh al-Islam ; (2011 – December 2015)
Service years	2011–2015
Rank	Commander of Jaysh al-Islam; Military Chief of the Islamic Front; Leader of the Unified Military Command of Eastern Ghouta;
Conflicts	Syrian Civil War † Battle of Damascus (2012); Rif Dimashq offensive (November 2012–February 2013); Damascus offensive; Battle of Al-Malihah; Battle of Yarmouk Camp (2015); Battle of Zabadani (2015); Eastern Ghouta offensive (2015); Siege of Eastern Ghouta †; Inter-rebel conflict during the Syrian civil war; Syrian opposition–Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant conflict;

Zahran Alloush (Arabic: زَهْرَان عَلُّوش, romanized: Zahrān ʿAllūš, 1971 – 25 December 2015) was a Syrian Islamist rebel leader who was the commander of Jaysh al-Islam (Army of Islam), a major component of the Islamic Front, of which he was the military chief, and was described as one of the most powerful rebel leaders in Syria until his death. He was killed in a joint Russian and Regime airstrike on 25 December 2015 and was succeeded by Essam al-Buwaydhani as head of Jaysh al-Islam.