The leader of the Islamist group that toppled Bashar al-Assad has said that rebel factions in war-torn Syria will be "disbanded" and their fighters placed under the defence ministry. At the same time, he called for sanctions to be lifted so that refugees can return. Syrian president Assad was toppled by a lightning 11-day rebel offensive spearheaded by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS), whose fighters and allies swept down from northwest Syria and entered the capital on December 8.
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