The best reporting on Syria comes from The Grayzone.
This is not what you see in the MSM. Their sources are often US officials being quoted from the past. One source here is a journalist who was captured in Syria and later escaped. They cite their sources.
https://youtu.be/k5eb-z-QLXwFormer hostage responds to top diplomat calling Al Qaeda a US 'asset' in Syria
4,520 views•Apr 11, 2021
Amid a public relations campaign to rehabilitate the Al Qaeda franchise in Syria -- which rules Idlib, Syria's last militant-controlled province – former top US diplomat James Jeffrey has called the group a US "asset." Lindsey Snell, an independent journalist who escaped captivity by Al Qaeda in Syria, responds.
Guest: Lindsey Snell, independent journalist covering the Middle East and North Africa. In 2016, she was kidnapped by the Al Qaeda group in Syria, what was then called al-Nusra, and escaped after 10 days.