The Idlib-based group's decision to hand over several jihadis to Turkey, including two men affiliated with the Islamic State, come as part of HTS's attempt to present itself as more moderate.
June 4, 2021
IDLIB, Syria The General Security Service affiliated with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham which is designated as a terrorist group by the United States announced in a May 30 tweet that the service’s Executive Force launched a security campaign May 29 against what it described as “the collaborators and supporters of the criminal [Syrian] regime” and several suspects in the cities of Salqin and Jisr al-Shughur in their respective countrysides.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham s security apparatus distributed photos in the area showing “the members of the Executive Force deployed as part of the crackdown on wanted people and suspects in the city of Jisr al-Shughur and its countryside.”
No flour for days in Al-Rukban: Residents fear famine amid growing food shortages in Syria
February 4, 2021
Residents of al-Rukban stand out a bakery in the camp to get bread, 26/3/2020 (Imad Ghaly)
AMMAN “We have had no bread in seven days because no flour reaches the camp. If the situation continues like this, we will die here of starvation,” Abu Ahmad (a pseudonym), a resident of al-Rukban camp, texted
Syria Direct on Friday.
Following a regime crackdown on smugglers, access to bread decreased drastically over the past two weeks, several camp residents told
Syria Direct. Many worry this unprecedented shortage forecasts a more severe crisis induced by growing food shortages in regime-held areas.
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