Sharaa is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant group in the rebel alliance. He and HTS led the lightning offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad's regime less than two weeks ago.

The United States prepared a rebel force to join the offensive that ... only one of many ironies if the US has been in an effective alliance with a group like HTS, which was al-Qaeda’s affiliate ...

Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has governed in Idlib, northwest Syria, since 2017. Now that the Assad regime has fallen at the hands of the Islamist group, could Idlib be a model for ...

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He is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant group in the rebel alliance, and was previously known by his nom de guerre of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. He said HTS should be de ...

An ethnic rebel group has recaptured its former headquarters close to Thailand’s borders, almost three decades after it was driven out by the Myanmar military. In a statement yesterday ...

The military chief of Syria’s victorious Islamist group HTS said that the group would be “the first” to dissolve its armed wing and integrate into the armed forces, calling on Western govern ...

Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded" and trained to join the "ranks of the defence ministry" said the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led rebel fighters to Damascus and ...

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Mogadishu, Somalia – Hinda Aden and her fellow rebel fighters were trekking through the grasslands of Ethiopia’s Ogaden region under the cover of night, to avoid the enemy’s gaze ...

Syria updates: Rebel groups to be disbanded, HTS leader says Published 12/17/2024 Published December 17, 2024 last updated 12/18/2024 last updated December 18, 2024 ...

A little over a week after taking power, the rebel alliance that led the overthrow of the Assad regime has begun to receive diplomats in the Syrian capital, Damascus. By Vivian Yee Reporting from ...