A dry wind rushes through the meanders of destroyed streets, bringing up the acrid smell of smoke laden with gasoline. In the ...

The United States announced Monday that it may reconsider the designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) as a terrorist ...

Three months after reports of the killing of hundreds of civilians in Syria s Alawite coastal areas shook the world, a new, ...

Origins and ideology. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has its roots in the early stages of the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 as a popular uprising against the autocratic government of Assad.. The ...

President Donald Trump signed on Monday an executive order terminating a U.S. sanctions program on Syria, allowing an end to ...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order that lifts decades-long U.S. sanctions on Syria, which will ease ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has its roots in the early stages of the Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 as a popular uprising against the autocratic government of Assad.

Background. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has an interesting and unique history.It started out as a branch of the Islamic State’s predecessor group, the Islamic State of Iraq, when it was founded in January ...

Since 2017, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and its affiliated organizations, driven by a hunger for broader power, created a certain level of stability in Idlib, governing with pragmatism and discipline.

The rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is responsible for toppling the Assad family's five-decade grip on power. But who exactly are the leaders of HTS, ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose name means Organization for the Liberation of the Levant, began around the same time as Syria’s civil war, which broke out in 2011 after Mr. al-Assad’s troops ...

(THE CONVERSATION) A major offensive has seen rebel groups in Syria retake the country’s second city, Aleppo – and demonstrated the growing prominence of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al ...