The Taliban was in the first batch of groups to be added to the banned list, in February 2003, and Syria's HTS was added in 2020. The Kremlin has been courting relations with the Taliban after the ...

Despite this, Leaf reiterated multiple times that the U.S. would continue to judge HTS by its actions rather than its words. "If I'm sitting with the HTS leader and having a lengthy, detailed ...

He is the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the dominant group in the rebel alliance, and was previously known by his nom de guerre of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. He said HTS should be de ...

Syria's rebel factions will be "disbanded" and trained to join the "ranks of the defence ministry" said the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led rebel fighters to Damascus and ...

The HTS leader said rebel groups would be folded into the new Defense Ministry UN's new humanitarian boss called for increased humanitarian aid in Syria Here are the latest developments from and ...

Photographs showed senior officials, including the UK's special representative for Syria, Ann Snow, meeting HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as Mohammed al-Golani, in Damascus on Monday. The ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, an internationally sanctioned former jihadist, has been meeting foreign dignitaries since his group Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS) ousted ex-President Bashar al Assad’s ...

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has confirmed the UK government has made "diplomatic contact" with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the main Syrian opposition group that toppled the Assad government.

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Chechnya Governor Ramzan Kadyrov has proposed removing Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the rebel group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, from Russia’s list of terrorist organizations.

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The Golan Heights, situated in the southwest corner of Syria and bordering Israel, Lebanon and Jordan, is a 1,000 square mile rocky plateau around 40 miles (60 kilometres) from Damascus ...