WTH is Going On In Syria? The New Lines Institute’s Hassan Hassan Explains

In roughly ten days, opposition forces in Syria were able to
accomplish more than they did in a decade and topple the
tyrannical Assad regime. But as the dust settles, Hay’at Tahrir
al-Sham – the U.S. designated terrorist organization that led the
march to Damascus – will have to prove that it has moved on from
its anti-Western Jihadist ideology and is committed to rebuilding
a Syrian state that meets the needs of its people. Why did
Assad’s regime collapse so quickly? And what does the future of
Syrian governance look like?


Hassan Hassan is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of New Lines
Magazine, an initiative of the New Lines Institute, and the
founder of the institute’s Human Security Unit. Previously, he
was a Senior Fellow at the Program on Extremism at George
Washington University and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East
Policy. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (2016, Reagan Arts).


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