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The HTS government is of known jihadists consolidating their power with genocide of non Sunnis, building up a system of sex slavery and forced marriage, and must be stopped!

by riseup4rojava / Kongra Star on 25 July 25 via thefreeonlineat https://wp.me/pIJl9-HeH Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3682

📖 NEW ANALYSIS: Syria now – jihadists in suits and ties are still jihadists – https://t.me/International_Rev/11063

🟡 Read our new analysis of the political situation in Syria.

🟡 Focuses on the rise of HTS to power and their efforts to keep it by building a fundamentalist Islamic state

🟡 Read to understand more about HTS, Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani), the genocide of Alewi people in Latakia, the massacre of Druze people in Sweida, and the war on women in Syria.

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We have seen many great tricks in the Middle East and today in Syria we see another. State leaders and their national media have transformed men once seen as Islamist fascists into respectable politicians.

The US removed HTS from the terrorist list, took the $10 million bounty off al-Sharaa’s head and they became the “Syrian Transitional Government”. But make no mistake.

These are the men of al-Nusra and ISIS. Men who murdered hundreds of civilians, raped hundreds of women, assassinated women leaders like Hevrîn Xelef, and sold women as sex slaves. And they have not changed. This diplomatic face of jihadism reflects a change in tactics, but the ideology remains: to impose Islam with violence for power.

Hevrîn Xelef, Kurdish leader murdered by SNA jihadists

Background

In 2016, al-Nusra split from al-Qaeda. It was dissolved when it joined with other jihadist groups to form Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (“Organization for the Liberation of the Levant”).

HTS declared itself on 28 January 2017, with Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as al-Jolani) as its emir and overall military commander. With the support of the Turkish-backed SNA (Syrian National Army) HTS took control of Idlib in 2018, a city in north-western Syria, between Aleppo and Latakia. Here they established their “Syrian Salvation Government” under Islamic law.

In Idlib, Turkey’s support allowed HTS to keep control and gain experience in state building and governance.

Attacks on women were a basis for this state building. They used both law and culture to erase them from public life and present house-bound care takers and mothers as the ideal woman.

Women must be fully covered and can only be in public with a male guardian. Many women attend university in Idlib but they can only study religion and domestic skills and take jobs in women-only environments like girls schools and women’s health.

Not all these restrictions are legal, but breaking any of them risks harassment, intimidation and arrest and openly protesting them is heavily punished.

With its strength from Idlib, HTS launched its offensive in November 2024 and overthrew the Assad regime. Videos and pictures from the beginning showed many HTS and SNA fighters carrying ISIS flags and wearing ISIS badges on their military uniform. When the Assad Regime fell, HTS suddenly started talking about a “Syria for all Syrians”. At the same time they created their new government.

Now

The project of this new government is clear in its leadership, constitution and actions. The proposed constitution declares Syria as an “Arab Republic”, with Islamic law as its legal system and Arabic as its official language. It also gives al-Sharaa dictatorial powers.

For example, only Jolani can appoint ministers and judges and there are no processes to challenge these decisions.