HTS’ leader pledges to change battles’ map in Aleppo
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – Abu Muhammad al-Julani, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS – formerly al-Nusra Front) said on Saturday that the map of battles will be changed in Aleppo in the coming two years.
“Aleppo is the gate to Damascus and it will be under focus for one or two years,” al-Julani added during the revolutionary conference of IDPs in Aleppo and Idlib.
“The military readiness is at the highest level,” he added.
The HTS, founded in 2017, controls the city of Idlib and the western countryside of Aleppo, using its Salvation Government as a political and administrative umbrella since.
About a month ago, al-Julani said, in a meeting with tribal leaders of Idlib, that the HTS is not week and has strengths that can explode and turn the table.