In May 2018, the group was added to the State Department’s existing designation of its predecessor, the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Today, HTS can be ...

A resurfaced video of Syria's Justice Minister Shadi al-Waisi overeeing the execution of a woman for adultery, raises ...

Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) has undergone extensive political and ideological transformations since its emergence as an affiliate of Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) under ...

In a room of his house, destroyed by a Russian bomb, Nasser, a young HTS soldier recently returned from exile, feeds a small ...

as he was known during his time as the leader of the Al-Nusra terrorist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda. He is a pragmatic ...

With the shocking collapse of Bashar Assad’s dictatorship in Syria, the U.S. intelligence community is once again on the hook to produce the intelligence that will inform national security policy.

The country's strongman has surrounded himself with close associates, former jihadists and conservative Islamist technocrats with whom he governed the province of Idlib.

In 2013, about 60 kilometers north of Damascus, the al-Nusra Front—a precursor to Hts—killed dozens of people, kidnapped twelve nuns from the Saint Thecla convent, looted sacred sites ...

Jolani is the former emir of the al-Nusra Front, which was initially linked to the Islamic State and then to al-Qaeda. It was designated a terrorist organisation by the UN in 2013. In the same ...