Syrian rebels took a year to plan Assad's ouster: report   

Syria's Islamist-led rebel alliance had been planning the surprise ouster of President Basher al-Assad for a year, an opposition military leader told the Guardian in an interview published Friday.The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Islamist group, which says it has moved away from its roots in  Al-Qaeda, has long controlled a part of northwest Syria.After being...