German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to work with the Syrian opposition teams that took energy in Damascus “on the premise of elementary human rights and the safety of ethnic and spiritual minorities,” Berlin stated in an announcement Monday.
The choice got here throughout a cellphone name the French and German leaders held Monday. It comes after insurgent forces ousted dictator Bashar Assad and took management of Syria on Sunday, following 13 years of bloody civil warfare wherein over half 1,000,000 individuals had been killed.
Western capitals are debating easy methods to interact with the Syrian rebels, who’re led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which the U.S. and U.Ok. have designated as a terrorist group. HTS and its chief Abu Mohammed al-Jolani had been beforehand affiliated with al Qaeda, however reduce ties with the group in 2016. Since then, al-Jolani has tried to painting his group as extra average.
