Bashar al-Assad sold them a destructive narrative of existential struggle.

Assad's recent ouster, ethnic Syrian Alawites have found themselves increasingly anxious over the future under HTS rule, ...

Will he walk the walk and not just talk the talk? And if he doesn’t win in the elections, will he peacefully stand aside for ...

Standing before a cheering crowd in Damascus’ historic Umayyad Mosque, the broad and bearded Abu Mohammad al-Jolani declared ...

The militant leader whose insurgency toppled Syria’s Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image.

Syrian rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad and he had fled ...

The leader of the rebel forces group that took back Damascus from Bashar al-Assad will now rule without fear of a $10 million ...

HTS began in 2011 as Jabhat al-Nusra, an Al Qaeda affiliate, and was known for its effectiveness and brutality. “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” translates to "Organisation for the Liberation of the ...

"was carried out by rebels from the al-Qaida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra group, according to a Syrian government official and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime group ...

The Syrian Islamist leader whose group led the offensive that toppled Bashar al-Assad met on Sunday with U.N. envoy Geir Pedersen, who was visiting Damascus, said a statement on the rebels ...

This narrative, and the fear of Sunni extremist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, kept many Alawites bound to Assad even as the cost became unbearable. With Assad gone ...