Mali is not Syria, and Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is not Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham. As a local security analyst who has examined Islamist insurgencies in West Africa and the Sahel for over a ...

Among them, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has emerged as the most powerful armed faction in northwest Syria, despite the collapse of numerous other militant groups through defeat or mergers. HTS has ...

Abu Mohammed al-Julani is the leader of the Syrian rebel/terrorist group Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and is the nom de guerre of Ahmad al-Shaara. The targeted street in Jaramana is somewhat narrow and ...

Sharaa, Interim President of Syria. As the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), he spearheaded the offensive that ...

A Syrian court sentenced ousted leader Bashar al-Assad to death on Tuesday after a trial in absentia, convicting him of crimes including killings, torture, and arbitrary ...

The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group led the rebel offensive that toppled Syria’s government last month. (EPA Images pic) The US military said it killed a senior operative of Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch in an ...

'Syria after Assad' (2/4). Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's dictatorial regime one year ago, more than 1.2 million exiled Syrians have returned home. The journey back has often been extremely ...