How inclusive do Syrians believe new leaders will be?

Speaking to Channel 4 News, Dr H A Hellyer said: "I think that these are very early days. I think that there are certain things that are certain. One of those is that there was no path ahead for Syria getting itself out of the quagmire with Bashar al-Assad at the helm... I think caution about such things is incredibly normal, and I think it’s down to the HTS government, the transitional authorities, to put those concerns to rest. Now, I will say that thus far there have been some good indications, there have been some good statements, some very public meetings with different representatives of a broad variety of Syrian society. That’s good. We wait to see how these will actually be implemented in terms of policies and eventual constitution. I think the important thing, though, is that there is an opportunity here to even have those discussions in an open forum which didn’t exist before."