Cafes Can’t Play Music, but the Water Taps Work: Life Under Syria’s Rebels
The Islamists who now lead Syria have ruled the city of Idlib for years. Residents say they imposed some strict laws, but ...
Islamist group running Syria has mixed record over governance in province, ruled with 'iron fist'
Sham, which toppled the regime of Bashar al-Assad, governed Syria's Idlib province with a mix of repression and pragmatism.
How Will the Rebels Rule Syria? Their Past Offers Clues.
The Islamist rebels who ousted Syria’s dictator ran a pragmatic and disciplined administration in the territory they ...
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Joy and pain in Aleppo as residents ask: What’s next?
A view from the first city taken by the rebels who ousted President Bashar al-Assad, scene of a brutal Russian-backed ...
Can Syria’s Islamist rebels govern the country? Their rule in Idlib offers clues
How the rebels governed Idlib offers insight into how they might rule Syria. Experts and residents of Idlib describe their ...
Life under Syria’s rebels
The rebel group has ruled Idlib with an authoritarian hand, imprisoning and torturing some critics, according to residents ...
How Syria’s rebels overcame years of a bloody stalemate to topple Assad
The Syrian regime’s collapse came more quickly than the rebels had dreamed — the circumstances were both serendipitous and ...
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Islamist technocracy: How HTS, the group leading change in Syria, became a force capable of defeating Assad
After distancing itself from Al Qaeda, the militia spent years trying out an administration in Idlib province that set it ...
The 12 days that brought down Assad
Assad fell in an unexpected campaign of less than two weeks. A visual analysis shows how rebels from Idlib province managed ...
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EU cites its success in HTS-controlled Idlib to bolster aid delivery in Syria
The EU stands with all Syrians. All Syrians deserve peace after decades of war and violence,' says European commissioner for ...