President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria ... palace insider, who worked down the hall from Mr. al-Assad for many years. On Nov. 30, a rebel coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al ...

Bedraggled young men in sneakers and mismatched fatigues wander wide-eyed through the opulent salons of the former tyrant’s palace ... al-Sham. It has more or less controlled the Syrian province ...

Following Bashar al-Assad's fall from power, a new government is taking shape in Syria that has many wondering if it will moderate its Islamist stance or, as some have predicted, function like the ...

He'd heard his wife and daughter got asylum outside of Syria so being reunited with his child seems impossible. "Her name is Sham," he says. "I think she's in Canada." For some, the search for the ...

Abu Hassan al-Hamawi, military chief of Syria's victorious Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is pictured during an AFP interview in the Mediterranean coastal city of Latakia. — OMAR HAJ KADOUR The ...

the war-weary Syrian state faces a combustible set of challenges to its political, security, and territorial governance. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), tasked with proving its credentials as a ...

It took just over a week for the 54-year Assad regime to fall in Syria and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebel group to take control. WSJ breaks down how it happened—and what comes next for Syria and ...

has been meeting foreign dignitaries since his group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) ousted ex-President Bashar al Assad’s regime last week. He seeks to present Syria’s new regime as a friendly ...

A U.N. envoy on Sunday called for a quick end to Western sanctions against Syria as the country's new ... led by the Islamic militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS. Officials in Washington ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group that toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, said Monday that a "social contract" between the state and all religions in the ...

But this year, with Iran and Russia entangled in other conflicts, what remained of Syria’s armed opposition seized the opportunity. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham—the Syrian Liberation Group, or HTS—and other ...

But all is not well in Syria. Soldiers of its new rulers, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, have liberated Damascus, Aleppo and Hama, but they do not control the whole country. Numerous rebel groups will ...