Islamic State Editorial on Foreign Fighters in Northwest Syria

Recently there have been tensions between Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and some of the small foreign-fighter-led groups based in the Jabal al-Turkoman area of northeast Latakia province. These groups are officially ‘independent’ but HTS accuses them of harbouring criminal and extremist elements. For critics of HTS, these accusations are a mere pretext to…