More than 50 years of Assad family rule have now been replaced with a transitional caretaker government put in place by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a former al-Qaeda affiliate that spearheaded the rebel offensive
The Hezbollah chief, Qassem also said,
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Syria’s new rulers should not recognize neighboring Israel or establish ties with it”
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“We hope that this new party in power will see Israel as an enemy and not normalize relations with it”
The Syrian rebel leader Ahmad al-Sharaa, who is better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Julani, said Saturday,
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Israel has “no more excuses” to carry out airstrikes in Syria and that recent IDF attacks on Syrian soil have crossed red lines and threaten an escalation in the region
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However HTS group did not seek further conflict in the region
