Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) has undergone extensive political and ideological transformations since its emergence as an ...

The Sunni Muslim militant group HTS was established in 2012 and was initially named Jabhat al-Nusra before renaming itself Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. Jabhat al-Nusra, also known as the Nusra Front ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Supporting Assad, himself an Alawite, was a matter not of loyalty or politics for this community, the regime insisted, but of ...

Video has appeared showing Syrian justice minister Shadi Al-Waisi reportedly overseeing the execution of two women accused of ...

Assad’s regime on December 8 has put Syria in the spotlight once again. Following over a decade of conflict, the killing of ...

As the Syrian civil war began, Jolani formed Jabhat al-Nusra as an al-Qaeda affiliate. The group was soon one of the more significant factions within the anti-government Free Syrian Army ...

His mission was to establish Al Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, Jabhat Al Nusra. Sharaa is now commanding thousands of men in an armed rebellion threatening to topple the regime of Syrian President Ba ...

Syrian new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa recently met with the Mideast nation's Christian leadership after a string of menacing ...

When I visited Maaloula in southwest Syria in 2016, the Jabhat Al-Nusra (the predecessor of the Hayat Tahrir Ash Sham jihadis ...

In 2011, he returned to Syria and founded Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda franchise in that country. READ MORE: Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of Syria’s insurgency that toppled Assad?

the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Today, HTS can be thought of as a relatively localized Syrian terrorist organization, which retains a Salafi-jihadist ...