HTS removed from terror list, now Syria leader and making deals with during his 2nd Washington trip. Buddy shooting hoops lmao

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Leader had $10m on his head previously now he’s welcomed as leader of Syria

US removes HTS from terror list ahead of Syria-Israel normalization​

Monday, 07 July 2025 6:21 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 07 July 2025 6:21 PM ]

The United States has revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for the HTS, which took over Syria after toppling President Bashar al-Assad, as the new regime plans to sign a normalization agreement with the Israeli regime.

"In consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, I hereby revoke the designation of al-Nusra Front, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (and other aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in the June 23 memo, which was filed on Monday.

The memo was published in a preview of the Federal Register before official publication on Tuesday.

The move comes a week after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ease unilateral US sanctions against Syria.

The sanctions on Syria have been in place since 1979 in response to Damascus’s foreign policy toward Israel.



Since Assad was toppled, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes against Syria and occupied large swathes of territory beyond the Golan Heights.

The new Syrian regime has been signaling a willingness to normalize ties with Tel Aviv.

The two sides are reportedly engaged in negotiations to reach a normalization agreement by 2026.

 

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Syria run by extremist ‘sheikhs’ not statesmen under HTS regime: Report​

Friday, 04 July 2025 11:17 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 04 July 2025 11:17 AM ]

Local sources say Syria is governed by extremist “sheikhs” under the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led regime rather than qualified statesmen.

In a report on Thursday, The Cradle said Syria has been divided into regions and sub-regions “ruled by extremist Sunni Muslim religious leaders who exert control over virtually every aspect of decision-making,” including negotiations with Israel for normalization of ties.

The normalization negotiations are said to include the Syrian side’s concession to Israel’s permanent rule over the occupied Golan Heights, a strategic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria that has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War.

Citing sources, the report said the extremist “sheikhs”, who view minority religious groups as unbelievers who do not deserve equal rights with Muslims and can even be killed under certain circumstances, are involved in each transaction or service of the state in areas fully controlled by HTS, including the distribution of gas, flour, electricity, security at checkpoints, local disputes over real estate and land, and even legal disputes.

“We had no real power. Appointments, funding, relationships with organizations, and even food aid go through the sheikh, not the state. The sheikh's decisions are more binding than any law,” a former employee of a local council in Idlib said.


Under the system of extremist “sheikhs”, each local one is administratively linked to “a higher Sharia council” overseen by a little-known body, according to the report.

The online news magazine cited another source as saying that Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the head of the HTS-led regime, who was previously affiliated with al-Qaeda and Daesh, “runs a kind of supreme religious council, coordinating between sheikhs in the judiciary, economy, and education. Even negotiations with foreign powers do not take place outside this framework.”

The HTS, a former branch of al-Qaeda, along with other militants, seized control of Damascus on December 8, 2024, forcing President Bashar al-Assad to leave the country.

A few months later, armed factions affiliated with the current administration committed a massacre against Alawite civilians in their coastal heartlands.

The murder of hundreds of Alawites in March has increased fears among minority groups about the now dominant militants.

 

[mrcmd187]

Leader had $10m on his head previously now he’s welcomed as leader of Syria

US removes HTS from terror list ahead of Syria-Israel normalization​

Monday, 07 July 2025 6:21 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 07 July 2025 6:21 PM ]

The United States has revoked the foreign terrorist organization designation for the HTS, which took over Syria after toppling President Bashar al-Assad, as the new regime plans to sign a normalization agreement with the Israeli regime.

"In consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, I hereby revoke the designation of al-Nusra Front, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (and other aliases) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote in the June 23 memo, which was filed on Monday.

The memo was published in a preview of the Federal Register before official publication on Tuesday.

The move comes a week after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to ease unilateral US sanctions against Syria.

The sanctions on Syria have been in place since 1979 in response to Damascus’s foreign policy toward Israel.



Since Assad was toppled, Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes against Syria and occupied large swathes of territory beyond the Golan Heights.

The new Syrian regime has been signaling a willingness to normalize ties with Tel Aviv.

The two sides are reportedly engaged in negotiations to reach a normalization agreement by 2026.

 

[knightmelodic]

this motherfucker didn't start out as a billionaire but he's sure going to end up one

 

[850credit]

Reminds me of the story the guy told in Cocaine Cowboys about taking his ugly friend to strip clubs and offering money for strippers to go home with him.

At first they'd say no until he hit a number they couldn't turn down.

He had so much money it was sport for him.

 

[BlackRob]

I’m confused, I probably missed a story.
Why is Syria doing this?

 

[BlackRob]

It’s real..
On this very page, they’re supposed to be working it out.

 

[World B Free]

As we already know: Israel can't be trusted.

 

[4 Dimensional]

Smh

 

[Mask]

Smh

 

[Mask]

Dude was wanted now he’s celebrated

 

[Mask]

 

[Mask]

 

[blackbull1970]

I will give him the benefit of the doubt…for now.

Remember, Malcolm X was full militant and ready to crack skulls, that all changed when he went to his first Hajj.

This cat started out full militant, now that he is on top, reality has slapped him fully in the face and he has realized the militants’ stuff was the easy part.

Now he gotta deal with all these nutjobs under him and all the different factions in Syria who all have their own demands.

He is like the Dog that chases the car…when the dog does catch the car, he is clueless on what to do.

Democracy ain’t easy.

 

[blackbull1970]

I watched both of these last night recorded on my DVR.

Both documentaries cover issues that the American Corporate News Media won’t touch.

And they both show why Trump/GOP want to cut funding to PBS.

Syria’s Detainees Files
June 10, 2025

FRONTLINE investigates the Assad regime’s arrest, torture and execution of detainees during the Syrian war.

Six months after the fall of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, more than 100,000 of the 1 million people detained by Assad’s regime during the Syrian war are still unaccounted for. What is known about the brutal system of detention, torture and killing under which they disappeared?

“Syria’s Detainee Files” documents the search for answers and accountability, shedding new light on atrocities under Assad through stunning testimony of former regime insiders and officers who carried them out, alongside the accounts of people who survived them.

The documentary follows Shadi and Hadi Haroun, two brothers who survived torture and almost a decade of imprisonment. Shadi says, “I lost 10 years of my life because of someone’s decision. Simply, ‘Erase ten years of his life, from the smallest moments to the most important ones.’”

The film explores how many former officials — some of whom defected, and some of whom stayed loyal to the regime until the end — rationalize their actions, saying they were following the orders of a government that would have killed them otherwise.

Now that the Assad regime has fallen and there are calls for accountability, the film raises questions about who, in a vast system of people following orders, should be held responsible for the atrocities.

​

Syria After Assad
July 1, 2025

FRONTLINE examines Syria’s uncertain future, tracing jihadist-turned-statesman Ahmad al-Sharaa’s rise to power and investigating emerging threats to the country’s stability.

Syria faces an uncertain trajectory in the wake of the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad after a nearly 14-year war that led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. The man who led the offensive to topple Assad — and now leads the fragile country — is Ahmad al-Sharaa, once known by his jihadist nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.

The geopolitical situation al-Sharaa is now shepherding Syria through is precarious. “Syria After Assad” examines how what happens in Syria under al-Sharaa’s rule could have consequential effects across the region and beyond, how al-Sharaa has wielded power so far and why the country is still deeply divided.

Although al-Sharaa has continually pledged unity and peace, members of the country’s minority groups — including the Kurds, the Druze and the Alawites — say they have been excluded and the latter fear retribution.

“The situation is very fluid; we just have to wait and see what happens,” Murhaf Jouejati, a Syrian academic and diplomat, says in the documentary. “We need to see this new administration be inclusive of all Syrians. We need to make sure that Syria will no longer be a center of terrorism.”


As “Syria After Assad” explores, the stakes are high for Syria’s people, the regional powers that have long engaged in deadly proxy battles in Syria, and the world.

James Jeffrey, a top diplomat in the region during the Bush, Obama and first Trump administrations, says, “What happens in Syria impacts all of the Middle East.

​

 

[Mask]

I will give him the benefit of the doubt…for now.

Remember, Malcolm X was full militant and ready to crack skulls, that all changed when he went to his first Hajj.

This cat started out full militant, now that he is on top, reality has slapped him fully in the face and he has realized the militants’ stuff was the easy part.

Now he gotta deal with all these nutjobs under him and all the different factions in Syria who all have their own demands.

He is like the Dog that chases the car…when the dog does catch the car, he is clueless on what to do.

Democracy ain’t easy.

In his situation I don’t think it’s that complicated

I feel if the detailed of him be magically released from prison then rose thru the ranks of ISIS and Al queda…. Is true

Him be authentic ain’t it