Al-Alam News Channel quoted the source as telling Lebanon’s Asia News Agency that al-Joulani has many names, but his real name is Adnan Al-Haj Ali from Quneitra.
 

His military name has been allotted to a number of people for security reasons in an attempt to prevent the disclosure of the Front present commander’s identity. The al-Nusra Front is organizationally under the command of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Reports had it that al-Haj Ali and his Syrian deputy Mostafa Al-Badawi have been killed in an air attack by a Syrian MiG fighter jet.

Al-Badawi was one of al-Qaeda high ranking authorities, who commanded thousands of forces the Front employed in Syria. He was from Homs and cooperated with active terrorist groups in Persian Gulf littoral Arab countries to bring Arab gunmen into Syria.

According to reports the death of this al-Nusra Front leader in Syria has dealt a heavy blow to the terrorist group, since the group, which enjoys a powerful command, will lose contact with many of its branches.