HTS may have benefitted indirectly from Turkish, Israeli and U.S. support for other anti-Assad rebel groups. Its leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa — formerly known by his nom de guerre, Abu Mohammed al ...
The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebel group in Syria is consolidating its power just 10-days after the country’s long-time autocratic president, Bashar al-Assad was dramatically removed from power.
The United States has made "direct contact" with the Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ... "We've been in contact with HTS and with other parties," Blinken said, referring to the rebels ...
Syrian rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad and he had fled Damascus on Sunday. But what is HTS, and how did it rock the long ...
Of all the foreign upheavals that the Biden administration has had to confront and manage in recent years, Syria was not on anyone’s list of likely crises. A U.S.-backed Syrian peace process ...