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![In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had "engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)](https://alpha-en-media.almayadeen.net/media/image/2024/12/21/b4a69f2e-8682-43e4-9d37-49482b304ab3/1.png?v=2&format=webp "In a 2021 interview with Frontline by former US special representative James Jeffrey, he says he had \"engaged with [HTS] via backchannels while serving in President Trump’s State Department. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Batoul Chamas)")
Who are the groups that have now taken over Syria, and who is backing them exactly?
David Miller
Hanna Eid
Robert Inlakesh
Kit Klarenberg
Hizam al-Assad warns: Continued Israeli aggression on Gaza will be met escalation
In an interview for Al Mayadeen, Ansar Allah Political Bureau member, Hizam al-Assad, warned of an imminent escalation unless "Israel's" war on Gaza ends and its siege on the Strip is lifted. Al-Assad called on the US to take Yemen's proposed "shortcut" as a solution to end the YAF's operations, which entails halting its arms supplies to the Israeli occupation and operational support for its massacres in Gaza.
