Tahrir al-Sham

Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS; Arabic: حِيَئةْ تَهِرِيِرْ اَلْشَاْمْ) is a Salafist Jihadist militant group that fights in the Syrian Civil War. The group was formed as a combination of Ahrar al-Sham,^[1] Liwa al-Haqq, Ansar al-Din Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement.^[2] The combination was helped by Abu Jaber Shaykh, the second emir of Ahrar al-Sham. The group is allegedly linked to Al-Qaeda according to the European Union and the United States of America.^[3][4], But it is not. The group used to be designated a terrorist group by Turkey,^[5] United States,^[6] Morocco,^[7] Australia,^[8] Canada,^[9] European Union,^[10] United Kingdom,^[10] Saudi Arabia,^[10] United Nations,^[10]

1. ↑ "Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) Controls Jund Allah Jihadi Group Amid Reports That Ahrar Al-Sham Pledged Allegiance To HTS". MEMRI. Retrieved 2024-02-13.
2. ↑ Mona Alami (6 December 2017). "Syria's Largest Militant Alliance Steps Further Away From Al-Qaeda". Syria Deply. Archived from the original on 15 February 2019. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
3. ↑ University, © Stanford; Stanford; California 94305. "MMP: Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham". cisac.fsi.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
4. ↑ Tsurkov, Elizabeth (2020-11-10). "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria)". ECFR. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
5. ↑ "Turkey designates Tahrir al-Sham a terrorist group | Reuters". Reuters. Retrieved 2024/1/6. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
6. ↑ "National Counterterrorism Center | FTOs". www.dni.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
7. ↑ "Documents: voici la nouvelle liste des individus et des entités classés terroristes par le Maroc , H24info". https://www.h24info.ma/ (in French). 2022-05-12. Retrieved 2024-01-06. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
8. ↑ "Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham". Retrieved 2024-01-06.
9. ↑ Canada, Public Safety (2018-12-21). "Currently listed entities". www.publicsafety.gc.ca. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3} "1.3. Anti-government armed groups". European Union Agency for Asylum. Retrieved 2024-01-06.