The government in Syria, and especially the country’s de facto leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) — have sought to reassure Syria’s many sectarian and ethnic minorities, including the Alawites, non-Alawite Shia, Christians, Kurds, and Druze, that they will be safe under the new, post-Assad regime. Al-Sharaa insists that years ago […]