Category: Hayy’at Taḥrīr al-Shām

New release from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām’s Abū Mārīyah al-Qaḥṭānī: “Killing and Fighting Are Prescribed For Us, And On Prostitutes Dragging Their Tails”

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The title of this release is in reference to a verse from one of ‘Umar Ibn Abu Rabi’ah’s poems, an Umayyad era poet.

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Abū Mārīyah al-Qaḥṭānī — Killing and Fighting Are Prescribed For Us, And On Prostitutes Dragging Their Tails

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New statement from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām’s Department of Political Affairs: “About the Russian Veto Against the Introduction of Humanitarian Aid and the Presentation of the Criminal Regime”

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām’s Department of Political Affairs — About the Russian Veto Against the Introduction of Humanitarian Aid and the Presentation of the Criminal Regime

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New video message from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām: “Dangerous Moments, Episode Twelve: Scenes From the Mujāhidīn’s Control of Positions of the Assad Militia in the al-Ḥikmah School Within the Battle to Break the Siege on the Aleppo City”

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

For prior parts in this video series: #11, #10, #9, #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2 and #1.

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New statement from Hay’at Taḥrīr al-Shām’s Ḍīyā’ al-‘Umar: “Regarding the Arrest of a Security Cell Affiliated With the Lebanese Ḥizb Allah Militia”

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Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Ḍīyā’ al-‘Umar — Regarding the Arrest of a Security Cell Affiliated With the Lebanese Ḥizb Allah Militia

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Check out my new ‘Policy Watch’ for the Washington Institute: “Sanctioning a Syrian Jihadist Leader: Implications of a Joint U.S.-Turkish Designation”

Posted on by Aaron Y. Zelin

On May 2, the U.S. and Turkish governments jointly designated Abu Ahmed Zakour (aka Omar Alsheak or Jihad Isa al-Sheikh), a senior leader with the Syrian jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The bilateral action with Ankara suggests that both countries are signaling their unhappiness with the group’s push into areas controlled by the Syrian National Army (SNA), a Turkish proxy militia. Zakour has been a key HTS liaison to those areas.

The designation also represented both good news and bad news for HTS on the sanctions front. On one hand, the announcement is the first U.S. government document to acknowledge that HTS broke with al-Qaeda years ago; all prior designations and reports claimed they were still together. On the other hand, this is the first U.S. designation of an HTS official since July 2021, indicating that group leader Abu Muhammad al-Jawlani’s various pleas for delisting have not gained traction in Washington.

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