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Once an offshoot of Al Qaeda, HTS rebranded itself in its desire to be seen as a credible governing body.
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But we begin this hour with news from Syria.
It took opponents of President Bashar al Assad just two days to take control of Hama, a city in the center of Syria, 200 kilometers from the capital, Damascus.
For sure, the rebel Islamists formerly active in Al Qaeda were helped by the strategic withdrawal of President Assad's troops.
But this is still the most dramatic advance by any group since the fighting began in Syria.
More than half a million people in the country have been killed since civil war erupted there in 2011 after President Al Assad's government cracked down violently on peaceful pro democracy protests.
This latest offensive is led by a group called Hayat Tarir al Sham, known as hts.
Although its roots a jihadist, recently it's tried to rebrand as a nationalist force shorn of its ideological identity.