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 group ...

While the Israeli crimes in Gaza have caused a global backlash and many countries have ostracized the Israeli regime from the ...

"The kingdom will provide with Qatar joint financial support to state employees in Syria," Bin Farhan said during a press conference with his Syrian counterpart Asaad al-Shibani in Damascus ...

A former US ambassador has revealed that a British NGO helped rebrand a former al-Qaeda commander into Syria’s leader.

In the last weeks of the Biden administration, Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf traveled to Syria to meet Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham leader whose December 2024 march on ...

If al Sharaa eventually delivers the state that he promises, he will have proved himself the most remarkable leader to have emerged in the Arab world.

Assad was deposed late last year by a collection of opposition forces led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group. HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa is now Syria's interim president. "The U.S ...

Al-Sharaa emerged from the heart of “Salafi-jihadist” ideology, with his worldview shaped in the training camps of Iraq during the US occupation. He spent several years imprisoned in “Bucca” detention ...

Despite his jihadist past, the Syrian president endeavors to align his country, once a pillar of the pro-Iranian axis unde, ...

Saudi Arabia witnessed a rare moment in global politics when Donald Trump shook hands with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, ...

Al-Sharaa took power after his Islamist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led a dayslong offensive that toppled former President Bashar Assad in December. Assad, a member of Syria's Alawite minority, ...