UN may remove HTS from terror list if 'it doesn't run Syria like Idlib'

The United Nations may consider removing Syrian rebel group HTS that toppled Assad regime on a condition that it could not seek to govern Syria in the way it had governed Idlib The leader of Syria's Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group that headed a lightning rebel offensive snatching Damascus from government control, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, address a crowd at the capital's landmark Umayyad Mosque on December 8, 2024. The United Nations may consider removing the Syrian rebel group - Hayat Tahrir al-Sham - that toppled President Bashar al-Assad regime - off its list of designated terrorist groups if it passes the key test of forming a truly inclusive transitional government in Syria. UN may remove HTS from terror list but there’s a condition The UN special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen suggested removing HTS from list of proscribed terrorists groups, but said that it could not seek to govern the country in the way it had governed Idlib. Pedersen also said that HTS had itself discussed dismantling the organisation, and reforming as group overtly opposed to international terror, a means whereby the terrorist designation issue could be bypassed.