Was planning to write something yesterday about the institution-building/lessons of HTS over past 4.5 years, but my laptop died so going to Apple Store to get fixed today. But for those curious about these changes, here’s a thread of articles I’ve written since 2020 on HTS: 🧵
May 2020: The Jihadi-Backed Salvation Government and Covid-19 in Northwest Syria washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
September 2020: Living Long Enough to See Yourself Become the Villain: The Case of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi jihadica.com/living-long-en…
June 2021: Hanging on in Idlib: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Expanding Tribal Engagement washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
June 2021: Abu Khalid al-Shami Killed in Russian Airstrikes syrianjihadism.com/2021/06/10/abu…
June 2021: Affirmations of Support and Rituals of Jihadi Martyrdoms gnet-research.org/2021/06/17/aff…
June 2021: “Idlib’s Guantanamo”: Foreign Fighters in HTS Prisons syrianjihadism.com/2021/06/11/idl…
June 2021: Jaysh al-Qa’qa’: A New HTS Front Group In Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield Territory? syrianjihadism.com/2021/06/13/jay…
July 2021: Who Is Abu Ahmad al-Zakur? HTS’s Liaison to the Syrian National Army syrianjihadism.com/2021/07/15/who…
August 2021: From Global Jihad to Local Regime: HTS Builds Different Forms of Legitimacy washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
August 2021: HTS Ideologues Respond to the Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan syrianjihadism.com/2021/08/19/hts…
February 2022: Second Islamic State Leader Killed in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Territory washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
May 2022: The Age of Political Jihadism: A Study of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
June 2022: Designations and Sanctions Related to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Its Predecessor Groups syrianjihadism.com/2022/06/03/des…
June 2022: Rhetoric Meets Reality in Jawlani’s Push for Self-Sufficiency washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
July 2022: Why Is It So Difficult to Get Off a Terrorist List? lawfaremedia.org/article/why-it…
August 2022: Jawlani’s “State of the Union” jihadica.com/jawlanis-state…
February 2023: Jihadi “Counterterrorism”: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Versus the Islamic State ctc.westpoint.edu/jihadi-counter…
March 2023: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and Imagined Communities in Its Proto-State washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
June 2023: Sanctioning a Syrian Jihadist Leader: Implications of a Joint U.S.-Turkish Designation washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysi…
April 2024: The Last Days of Abu Mariyah al-Qahtani syrianjihadism.com/2024/04/20/the…
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