With Syrian rebel forces entering the conflict in the Middle East, the Ford School's Javed Ali dissects what this might mean for the United States. Ali comments "The U.S. relationship with the group that is now known as Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, goes back more than a decade when under its previous incarnation it was an Al-Qaeda affiliate called Jabhat Al-Nusra and back then in the mid-2010's the U.S. was very concerned about that group because... there were indications back then that there was a smaller element within the group that very much had a program or an agenda to launch an attack against the West and the U.S... So these are all of the questions the U.S. has to consider, what will be the approach with this group, is it going to have some kind of global Jihadist agenda or will it only be focused locally on rebuilding Syria."
