Idlib: a testing ground for HTS

Nine days after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, the new prime minister installed by Sharaa’s Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) said the government was struggling with very low foreign reserves and called for sanctions to be lifted. Western states are gradually opening channels to the new authorities in Damascus led by HTS, although they continue to label it a terrorist group. FRANCE 24 journalist Andrew Hilliar tells more about the region.



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