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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tahrir al-Sham seeks to move away from al-Qaida past, get off Western terrorism lists
2023-05-15
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The leader of an Death Eater group that rules much of northwest Syria rose to notoriety over the past decade by claiming deadly bombings, threatening Dire Revenge against Western "crusader" forces and dispatching Islamist inquisitors religious police to crack down on women deemed to be immodestly dressed.

Today the man known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani is trying hard to distance his group, Hayat Tahrir al Sham, known as HTS, from its al-Qaeda origins, spreading a message of pluralism and religious tolerance.

As part of the rebranding, he has cracked down on krazed killer factions and dissolved the notorious inquisitors religious police. For the first time in more than a decade, a Mass was performed recently at a long-shuttered church in Idlib province.
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