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Joe Biden warned Syria's main rebel group not to work with Islamic State terrorists in secret messages exchanged during the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
The US president, using the Turkish government as an intermediary, was assured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that he had no intention of allowing ISIS in on their move, according to Turkish and US officials.
HTS, which led the rebel uprising across Syria that toppled the Assad regime on Sunday, was once linked to al-Qaeda but claims to have become more moderate in recent years. It remains banned as a terrorist group by the US, the UK and the UN.
Biden is now debating the extent to which they should engage directly with Islamist-led rebel groups amid concerns they could still join forces with jihadists, The New York Times reported.
In a televised address on Sunday, the outgoing president noted that some of the rebel groups had their own "dismal record of terrorism and human rights abuses."
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