Syria's main insurgent group seeks to move away from al-Qaida past, get off Western terrorism lists – Winnipeg Free Press
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IDLIB: The leader of an insurgent group that rules much of northwest Syria rose to notoriety over the past decade by claiming deadly bombings, threatening revenge against Western “crusader” forces and dispatching Islamist 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,
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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-Qaida origins, spreading a message of pluralism and religious tolerance
The leader of the most powerful al-Qaida-linked group in northwest Syria is rebranding his organization by moving away from extremist factions.