News Center- Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), along with other jihadist armed groups, launched an offensive and overthrew Assad's regime on December 8, 2024. On Thursday, hundreds of people protested the interim government at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, calling for democracy and women's rights.

Women and men gathered at the square chanted anti-government slogans such as, “We want democratic, not a religious state”, “Free, civil Syria” and “the Syrian people are one” and held signs reading, “No free nation without free women”.

 “Both women and men have a role to play in building the new Syria,” protester Majida Mudarres, 50, a retired civil servant, told AFP. “Women have a big role in political life... We will be observing any position against women and will not accept it. The time in which we were silent is over.”

 In the interview broadcast on the Lebanese channel Al-Jadeed, Obeida Arnaout, Spokesperson for the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), suggested that women’s biological composition made them unsuitable for positions such as Minister of Defense or roles within the judiciary.