al Qaeda can escape the terrorist label

Published 9 December 2024 at 13.46

Foreign. After the successes in Syria, the largest opposition group al-Qaeda's Syrian branch, Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham, can get rid of its terrorist label in the Western world. Britain may be the first to remove it, reports the Telegraph.

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Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham did together with rebels from, among others, Islamic state a successful uprising against Syria's former president Bashar al-Assad this weekend.

Now Britain can remove Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham from its official terrorist list, despite the fact that the group is an offshoot of al-Qaeda.

Minister Pat McFadden tells Sky News he believes more will follow.