Either Al-Sharaa is sincere in his reform efforts but does not have control over hardliners in his own organization, or ...

Islamist rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, gained international attention after it led a successful blitzkrieg-style assault campaign to overthrow Syrian ...

After more than 13 years of civil war, Assad's downfall came in a lightning rebel offensive led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and its chief Abu Mohammed Al-Julani. The fact that HTS's precursor Al ...

the military commander of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS) – the most powerful rebel group – described the extensive preparations that preceded the blitz offensive. These preparations included ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...

HTS now faces the challenge of including all the components in the new Syria without distinctions between men and women, language and religion.

1. Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani is the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, one of the largest rebel groups mounting the offensive against the Assad regime. 2. He broke with Islamic State in 2012 and cut ...

Some 600 people from different parts of Syria were invited to the gathering in Damascus, hosted by the new authorities led by the Islamist former insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS.

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In November 2017, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham — then known as the Nusra Front — attacked Druze residents in Hader, killing nine. Two years earlier, in June 2015, the Nusra Front massacred at least 20 ...

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MOSCOW, February 11. /TASS/. Terrorists controlled by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham organization (one of the names of the Jabhat al-Nusra group outlawed in Russia) are training militants to commit ...