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In June 2023, Tahrir al-Sham and Syrian Democratic Forces initiated formal diplomatic talks; concluding an agreement to initiate trade of fuel supplies between Rojava and Idlib.
The Syrian opposition (Arabic: المعارضة السورية al-Muʻaraḍatu s-Sūrīyah, [almʊˈʕaːɾadˤɑtu s.suːˈɾɪj.ja]) is the political structure represented by the Syrian National Coalition and associated Syrian anti-Assad groups with certain territorial control as an alternative Syrian government.. The Syrian opposition has evolved since the beginning of the Syrian conflict ...
Bilad al-Sham (Arabic: بِلَاد الشَّام, romanized: Bilād al-Shām), often referred to as Islamic Syria or simply Syria in English-language sources, was a province of the Rashidun, Umayyad, Abbasid, and Fatimid caliphates.
Syria (Hieroglyphic Luwian: 𔒂𔒠 Sura/i; Greek: Συρία; Classical Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ;Arabic: ٱلشَّام, romanized: Ash-Shām) is a historical region located east of the Mediterranean Sea in West Asia, broadly synonymous with the Levant. [3] Other synonyms are Greater Syria or Syria-Palestine. [2] The region boundaries have changed throughout history.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) appears light-years away from the day in late 2011 when a few dozen hardened jihadists crossed from Iraq into eastern Syria to establish Jabhat al-Nusra. Having emerged from the latter group in 2017, HTS now controls the last stronghold of Syria’s opposition, in the country’s north-west.
Syria, [a] officially the Syrian Arab Republic, [b] is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east and southeast, Jordan to the south, and Israel and Lebanon to the southwest.It is a republic that consists of 14 governorates as subdivisions. ...
The Sham Legion was formed on 10 March 2014 from 19 Islamist rebel groups in Syria. These groups operated from the Aleppo Governorate to Damascus , but were concentrated in the Idlib , Hama , and Homs governorates.
