{"id":7370,"date":"2026-01-21T18:30:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:30:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:30:05","slug":"religious-freedom-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/religious-freedom-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Freedom in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hero\">\n<div class=\"block-layout-region\">\n<div id=\"block-herointernalpageblock\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-hero-internal-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero_wrapper custom-hero  internal-hero-js-adjust\">\n<div class=\"internal_hero\" style=\"background-image: linear-gradient(to right, rgba(0, 0, 0, 1) 3%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)), url(\" https: www.uscirf.gov themes custom uscirf2020 assets images defaulthero.png\"); background-position-x: center; background-position-y: center\">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h1 class=\"internal-hero-title\">Religious Freedom in Syria <\/h1>\n<div class=\"custom-breadcrumb hidden\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"insertNavHere\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"container\">\n              <a target=\"_blank\" id=\"main-content\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class=\"hidden\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-uscirf2020-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"basic-page\">\n<div class=\"paragraph-section paragraph-unique-17631\" style=\"\" data-animation=\"fadeIn\" data-animation-delay=\"0.3\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"single-container row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"full-content\">\n<p>This factsheet analyzes religious freedom conditions in northwestern Syria under the de facto governance of Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate and U.S.-designated terrorist group. The rebel group continues to grow its administrative power in the northwest, including parts of the Idlib governorate, one of the last and largest strongholds against President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government. \u00a0Although HTS has cut formal ties with al-Qaeda and launched an active public relations campaign to rebrand itself as a legitimate civic authority, its authoritarian and ideologically driven governance\u2014as well as its ever-evolving relations with other non-state and state actors vying for control in parts of Syria\u2014puts northwest Syria\u2019s religiously diverse population at continued risk.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"btn-primary single-cta-btn\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/2022%20Factsheet%20-%20HTS-Syria.pdf\">View PDF<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"block-taxonomytermview\" class=\"block block-custom-blocks block-taxonomy-term-view\">\n<div class=\"content\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/publications\/religious-freedom-syria?rand=6542\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious Freedom in Syria This factsheet analyzes religious freedom conditions in northwestern Syria under the de facto governance of Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate and U.S.-designated terrorist group. The rebel group continues to grow its administrative power in the northwest, including parts of the Idlib governorate, one of the last and largest strongholds against President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":7371,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[766,661,708],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-7370","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-freedom","tag-religious","tag-syria","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-11\/HTS%20Image.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/7370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}