The Middle East is no longer a predictable chessboard where moves can be studied and anticipated. Instead, it resembles a ...

A French court on Friday convicted two friends of the jihadist who beheaded a French history and geography teacher of ...

Syria has for years been controlled by a patchwork of rebel groups including HTS in Idlib and Kurdish-led groups in the country's north east, some of which have also taken territory in recent days ...

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The leader of the Islamist militant group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is very much putting himself forward as the figurehead of a post-Assad future in Syria. Without his ...

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Further reading: From Aleppo to Hama, Islamist rebels expand control in Syria Some were willing to take the chance. Bassel, from Idlib, an agricultural province in northwestern Syria controlled by ...

In order to prevent Hama from falling into rebel hands—joining Aleppo and Idlib, the HTS stronghold—the Syrian army had launched a counteroffensive under the cover of airstrikes. SOHR had ...