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HTS’ Strategy to Consolidate Its Power in Syria

This text was written and published in Arabic before the recent dramatic events of Sweida, which in many ways confirmed the argument of this article. The military escalation in Sweida followed ...
WWNO

In the Golan Heights, Druze are loyal to Syria. But that loyalty is now severely tested

MAJDAL SHAMS, Golan Heights — For his entire life, Jalaa Ayoub could see Syria, just a few dozen yards away from the eastern edge of his town in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. But he could not go ...
Al-Monitor

UK removes terrorism designation for Syria's HTS

LONDON (Reuters) -The British government on Tuesday removed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group which spearheaded the Syrian rebel alliance that helped oust President Bashar al-Assad, from its list ...
Jane's Information Group

Insight report: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s capture of northeast Syria marks territorial defeat of Qiwaat Suriyya al-Dimoqratiyya

On 7 January, the armed forces of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS’) de facto government launched a ground offensive that captured two Kurdish-majority neighbourhoods of Ashrafieh and Sheikh Maqsoud in ...