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HTS will impose strict Sharia law and will punish those guilty of heresy
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No it will not a large part of HTS are former Free Syrian Army (FSA) a big-tent coalition of decentralized Syrian opposition rebel groups founded on 29 July 2011 by Colonel Riad al-Asaad and six officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces. The officers announced that the immediate priority of the Free Syrian Army was to safeguard the lives of
all protestors and
all civilians from the deadly crackdown by Bashar al-Assad's security apparatus. This is the moderator in HTS. A majority of the FSA militias are currently under the command of the Syrian Interim Government; while the rest have either allied with the Syrian Salvation Government, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, or are in the Al-Tanf Deconfliction Zone.