Nearly a year after longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a rebel faction aligned at one point with al-Qaeda, the Islamic State seized upon power vacuums within the country to recruit new members, launch fresh attacks, and destabilize Ahmed al-Sharaa’s nascent government. After the fall of Assad, Islamic State […] The post Islamic State Wages a Guerrilla Insurgency Throughout Eastern Syria appeared first on The Soufan Center.
