According to CNN (CNN) and other media reports, the White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby the 10th local time, the United States has not seriously discussed revoking the designation of the Syrian opposition terrorist organization, the Al-sham Liberation Organization (HTS) . Earlier, the media quoted an unnamed senior US government official as saying that the US government did not rule out removing HTS from the us-designated list of terrorist organisations in order to establish closer links with them.
White House National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator, John Kirby, file photo, Source: foreign media
“There has been no discussion of changing policy on HTS,” Kirby told reporters by telephone, according to CNN, adding that it would have to wait and see what the organizations actually did and to what extent they delivered on their promises.
CNN said Kirby also said the US was in contact with HTS and “All” Syrian opposition groups.
“We do have ways to communicate with all of them, and we’re using those [ communication ] channels the way you want them to,” CNN quoted Kirby as saying.
According to reports, launched the offensive in Syria, the armed group known as “Sham Liberation Organization”, is a long-term presence in the Syrian province of Aleppo and Idlib Governorate religious extremist forces. The Al-Nusra Front, the predecessor of the Al-sham Liberation Organization, had been operating as an al-qaeda affiliate in Syria until 2016, by the United States, Turkey, the European Union and other countries and international organizations included in the list of terrorist organizations. In order to gain support from the outside world, the Al-Nusra Front constantly merged with other extremist groups in the area and reorganized to form the present-day “Sharm Liberation Organization”, hope to join the Syrian political process in the future as”Anti-government forces”.