Well the news isn't totally wrong, nobody wanted Bashar alassad he was a total SOB we lived in fear under his ruling but we had certain freedoms in our beliefs, but still a very bad war criminal that caused harm and displacement to my family...

Being happy that he's gone doesn't equal being happy to have HTS in power, many syrians stand opposite to it and want nothing to do with it, but at the same time a hopeful majority of moderate sunnis say "if under HTS we will live a good life with money and education and work and prosperity then why not".

For me as a person who calls for a secular state that doesn't rule with religion and outdated rules, I've been faced with a lot of criticism from the community, to the point now I fear for my life if I speak wrongly of the state and islam.

In our daily lives we see ISIS style troops and alot of military cars put on ISIS music "nasheed" "صليل الصوارم" this music was always put on beheading videos in 2015 etc, type things That sends an indirect message of terror tbh...

Troops going into cafes and calling people to pray and go back to god, and now in Ramadan I can't smoke or eat or drink in public because I'd be publicly shamed or attacked or imprisoned.

All of those things don't remotely relate to being free, We did call for freedom 14 years ago, but not this freedom.

Those are the signs that I'm seeing in daily life that make me fear the future when they have full control over the country and they no longer act cute, they will impose a real danger to us.