HTS is carefully building a façade of respectability, righteousness, and reliability for administering a population and at the same time pushes the narrative of being the last standing exponent of the Syrian Revolution.

In the context of a lack of substantial, independent, on-the-ground assessments of the human rights situation, the news coming from Idlib tells of the ongoing construction of an increasingly totalitarian regime. The international community should be wary of considering the extension of HTS into the Turkish-occupied, SNA-controlled territories as a reasonable step to improve the catastrophic human rights situation there.

Read the full report: https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2023/06/when-jihadism-learns-to-smile/

When Jihadism Learns to Smile: HTS’ Evolution and its Current Presence in North and Northwestern Syria – Rojava Information Center

In the context of a lack of substantial, independent, on-the-ground assessments of the human rights situation, the news coming from Idlib tells of the ongoing construction of an increasingly totalitarian regime.

The international community should be wary of considering the extension of HTS into the Turkish-occupied, SNA-controlled territories as a reasonable step to improve the catastrophic human rights situation there.

Read the full report: https://rojavainformationcenter.com/2023/06/when-jihadism-learns-to-smile/

When Jihadism Learns to Smile: HTS’ Evolution and its Current Presence in North and Northwestern Syria – Rojava Information Center