Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto is “supportive” of repatriation, but Indonesian combatants in Syria will face ...

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Syria is not Idlib. Syria’s new rulers, dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have yet to learn that Syria is far more commanding, complex and complicated than Idlib, one of the smaller provinces.

From Idlib, rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, launched an astonishing offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad and ended his family's five-decade dictatorship in Syria.

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As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...

The airstrikes have reportedly continued, focusing on the southern Idlib countryside and movements by militants in two areas that HTS had occupied. The Syrian army has been relying heavily on airpower ...

Although HTS is a conservative Salafi organization, it invited a variety of like-minded groups and nationalists to participate in the race to take Damascus. While he ran a rebel enclave in Idlib ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, also reported that almost all heavy weapons had been withdrawn from the southern edge of Idlib by Monday. HTS and other ...

The rebel offensive on Damascus was led by the dominant rebel faction in Idlib, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), which is now steering the transition from Assad’s rule. Amid concerns about the group ...