PrintAlthough a wider insurgent offensive in northwest Syria has made dramatic advances in recent days, it would be a mistake to think of this offensive as marking a wholly new-found insurgent unity. Essentially, as the insurgents advance, they are divided into two operations rooms that will lead to the newly acquired territory being split between the two existing administrative systems for insurgent-held territory.
One of these operations rooms is the 'Military Operations Administration' led by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), with its operation code-named 'Deterring the Aggression.' Whatever this operations room acquires will be governed by the HTS-backed/controlled 'Salvation Government'. We are already seeing this in Aleppo city with the operation of the bakeries by the Salvation Government, for example. If Hama city falls to the 'Military Operations Administration' (very much a real possibility), it too will be governed by the Salvation Government.
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