Assad is gone. What’s next for Syria?

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When Gulf Cooperation Council countries announced on Dec. 1 that they opposed “regional intervention” — meaning the deployment of pro-Iran militias — in Syria and called for a national unity government that included Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, little did they know that in less than a week, Assad and Iran’s proxies would be gone and opposition factions would take over.

Of these factions, Qatar allegedly sponsors the most dominant, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), led by Abu Mohammed al-Jolani.

Hussain Abdul-Hussain is a research fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD). Follow him on X @hahussain