Profile: HTS Financial Institutions Lock Down Monetary Control over Idlib

The Syrian pound’s freefall and its replacement with the Turkish lira in the Idlib governorate has revealed the extent of the hard-line Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s control over the financial sector in the northwest of the country. An emerging group of financial companies linked to HTS now control a large portion of the cash circulating in Idlib, financial and political sources told The Syria Report.