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Blinken says US made direct contact with rebel group HTS

Syria live updates: Blinken says US made direct contact with rebel group HTS

Rebel forces in Syria captured the capital Damascus and toppled the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country.Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon is holding despite ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah targets,

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U.S. has made contact with Syrian rebel group HTS, Blinken says

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.

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What is HTS? Here's what to know as Syrian rebels say Bashar al-Assad has fled

Syrian rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, declared they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad and he had fled Damascus on Sunday. But what is HTS, and how did it rock the long-simmering tensions in Syria? HTS is a Sunni Islamist militant and political group that traces its roots to the beginning of the Syrian civil war.

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Syria’s new HTS rulers take over border crossings with Jordan and Lebanon

Follow the latest on Syria The extremist group Hayat Tahrir Al Sham (HTS), which led the rebel advance that deposed Syrian ...

Israel strikes Syrian military even as rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani pledges peace

Israeli air raids have severely degraded Syria’s military infrastructure, with reports suggesting that up to 70 per cent of ...

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Back in Damascus, rebel leader confident of post-Assad unity

Syrian rebel leader Riad al-Asaad told AFP on Sunday he was confident that the myriad of factions which helped topple Bashar ...

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Russia withdraws equipment from Syrian bases, but not abandoning them, in new deal talks with HTS – Reuters

By bnm Gulf bureau Russia began to withdraw substantial amounts of equipment from its two bases in Syria on December 13, but ...

Assad’s fall to Islamist rebels in Syria unsettles region’s autocrats

Leaders in countries such as Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia are worried Assad’s ouster, and the rise of an Islamist government, could stir unrest at home.

Syria Since Assad's Overthrow: Latest Developments

It has been a week since Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and other rebels toppled longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad.

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