Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is the primary group behind ... with schools in territory held by the group teaching his Salafi interpretations of Islam. However, Sheikh's Salfism claims to be distinct ...

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The brutality of jihadist groups affiliated with HTS, which was brought to power in Syria as part of an imperialist design, ...

two new groups – Salafi democrats and Salafi revolutionaries – have come to the fore too. Presenter Safa Al Ahmad talks to representatives of all positions in the current debate within Salafi ...

Today, HTS can be thought of as a relatively localized Syrian terrorist organization, which retains a Salafi-jihadist ideology despite its public split from al-Qaeda in 2017. This backgrounder ...