FinPol Digest

  In the complex landscape of Syria's ongoing conflict, various Islamist factions have emerged, each with distinct objectives but a common aspiration: in itself the control of state institutions. HTS, Ahrar al-Sham and the al-Nusra Front have played a lead role in this mission. They both do not have their sights set on merely replacing the Assad government; instead, what frames both groups’ agendas is an ambition to remake Syrian politics and society according to al-Shari’ah’s tenets. HTS formerly recognized as the al- Nusra Front, is the group that has, over the period of time, shift its al-Qaeda related activities to the realization of the Syrias Islamic state. They stereotype that their goal is to establish the Sharia and build the proper system of the government from the Islamic point of view, which is not true. In the same way, Ahrar al-Sham, which was established on Salafist platform, also aims at creation of ‘Islamic cultured society in Syrian’ founded on Islamic sharia and ...