Patience may close sooner than anticipated if HTS fails to address immediate needs: Atlantic Council

Syria’s Ahmad al-Sharaa mandate comes with an expiration date

TEHRAN - In a commentary late last month, the Atlantic Council said Syrians’ “public patience may close far sooner than anticipated” if the HTS government fails to “address immediate needs”.

HTS leaders unlikely to become democratic rulers: London School of Economics professor

50 Salafist commanders promoted to senior military posts

TEHRAN - A professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, says Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) has effectively transported its old Idlib government to Damascus while mostly excluding secular and more moderately religious opposition groups.

A Libya or Sudan outcome possible in Syria without clear roadmap: analysis

TEHRAN - In a commentary published on Dec. 9, a Middle East security expert at Princeton University says once the Syrian opposition gets rid of their common enemy “and the process of shaping the future begins, their differences will surface, and it remains uncertain how reconcilable these differences will be.”