In Tahrir Square, downtown Cairo’s massive focal point, the protesters managed to hold their ground until late at night, when the police drove them out. The protests continued the next day ...

In Indonesia and elsewhere, anger at Israel’s brutal attacks on Gaza has provided grist for the extremist mill.

The man in the front passenger seat, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham operative Abu Amro, is in a hurry.His mission is to recruit as many ...

For more recent analysis of Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), see this August 2023 post from the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program's Examining Extremism series. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS or ...

Sham, which overthrew the Assad regime last month, reflects rising U.S. alarm that ISIS could mount a resurgence.

The UMA was established and is run by prominent Muslim leader sheik Shadi Alsuleiman, a respected figure who is part of the NSW government’s Faith Affairs Council and president of the Australian ...

As the de facto ruler of Damascus, HTS has attempted to rebrand itself as a moderate group capable of governance, seeking to distance itself from its history of extremism and terrorism. However, Syria ...

The goal is to give the Syria’s new government some relief while also allowing time to determine whether the new Syrian power structure under the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham will evolve ...