Meeting Monday with members of the Druze community, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani said all rebel factions would 'be disbanded and the fighters trained to join the ranks of the defence ministry'.
DAMASCUS - Syria's rebel factions will be"disbanded," the head of the group that led the ouster of Bashar al-Assad has pledged, as the former president denounced the country's new rulers as"terrorists".
"Syria must remain united," he said."There must be a social contract between the state and all religions to guarantee social justice". Syria's economy remains constrained by punishing US and European sanctions, and Western powers are still determining how to engage with HTS. HTS fighters manned a nearby checkpoint and said they were under orders not to approach the Russians, whose flag still flies over a military enclave in the terminal.
She travelled to the prison in Damascus from her home in northern Syria, but could find no trace of her missing son.
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