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Abu Jaber has released his first speech as the general commander of the newly formed Ha'yat Tahrir al Sham (“Assembly for the Liberation of Syria"). He calls on other factions to join his group, promises to wage jihad on Bashar al Assad's regime until the end and claims that losing the war would be catastrophic for Syria's Sunnis.
During the second week of October, unprecedented full-fledged military confrontations broke out in northern Syria between factions of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA), with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) subsequently intervening in support of some factions over others. Tukey’s weariness about the constantly deteriorating state of security in the north, resulting mainly from infighting among the SNA forces it backs, and its willingness to impose order on them, could explain its silence on HTS’s military aggression. For HTS, however, expanding its rule and settling scores with some SNA factions may be the main drivers behind its recent attacks.
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