The State Department said on Monday that U.S. government has had more than one communication with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) ...
What comes next? HTS has proven competent, and at least so far — pragmatic. But an enormous amount of uncertainty lingers on ...
Comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken this weekend were the first time a U.S. official has acknowledged contact with the Syrian rebel group that drove Bashar al-Assad from power.
The ascendance of Sunni Islamist rebels in Syria should be viewed with great caution by Western powers, but the Assad ...
Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar al-Assad in a lightning-quick ...
Blinken is the first U.S. official to publicly confirm contacts between the Biden administration and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or ...