Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a United States-designated political organization that was formerly linked to al-Qaeda, in the past week stunned the world — and Syrians themselves — by seizing strategic areas of the country’s historic business hub of Aleppo and central Hama, before moving on to the gates of Damascus early Sunday, prompting Syrian tyrant Bashar Al-Assad and his family to flee to Moscow, according to Russian state media sources, and bringing an end to the family’s 50-year rule.