Reform Party of Syria (RPS)

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Until recently, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood was the NFS's [National Salvation Front's] terrorist front in Syria.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the father of radical Islam and the movement that gave birth to Al Qaeda and other radical Islamic groups. The Palestinian faction of this group is Hamas. 

In Syria, this group came to be the opposition to the Assad regime, which it viewed as an apostate regime. It sought to turn syria into an expansionist Islamist state. 

In 1982, this group used violence in an attempt to overthrow the Syrian regime and to establish this oppressive Islamist state. It was oppressed by the Syrian regime. In that same year, the Muslim Brotherhood made its plan for world Islamist domination, calling for not just terrorism, but also to subvert the free world from within. 

The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has close ties to Al Qaeda. Both the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda set up radical Islamic terrorist cells in Hamburg, Germany. 

Newsweek journalists Mark Hosenball and Mike Isikoff, when reporting for PBS's Americans at a Crossroads, documented the connection a notorious Syrian Muslim Brotherhood member Mahmoun Darkanzanli had with radical Islamic terrorists including Al Qaeda. Darkanzanli took part in the 1982 violent Islamist uprisings against the Syrian regime.

In 2005, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Syria's then-Vice President under Bashar Assad, defected from the Syrian regime and formed an alliance with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.

One year later, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood became the main group in the National Salvation Front [NSF], which was formed by Khaddam. The NFS's goal is to overthrow the Syrian regime. The NFS was led by both Khaddam and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood leader Ali Sadreddine Bayanouni. Bayanouni states this on Israel:

Who empowered the Syrian regime to sign peace with Israel? Does the Syrian government enjoy any legitimacy? Does the Syrian regime enjoy any legitimacy, enabling it to conduct negotiations with Israel on behalf of the Syrian people? I believe that the Syrian people have not empowered this regime - which lost its legitimacy a long time ago - to negotiate with Israel.

On that interview, he dodges the interviewer's question on whether he favors the destruction of Israel or for peace with Israel in exchange for Israel leaving the disputed territories. According to Discover the networks, Bayanouni "has repeatedly disavowed violence while concurrently pledging his support for the terrorism of Hamas and Hezbollah."

Khaddam also accused the Syrian regime of killing the Hezbollah commander Imad Mugniyeh to appease Israel. 

Mugniyeh is a notorious terrorist who had ties to Al Qaeda, as well as responsible for many deadly terrorist attacks, which were committed by the Hezbollah terrorist group. The Iran Press Service reports that:

During his constant traveling, Mughniyeh met Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri in Sudan, where al Qaeda’s leader had established training centers in farms, while the revolutionary guards were also active in the country, under the guise of “Jihad for construction” organization, which was responsible for building roads and installations. 

In 2007, the National Salvation Front opened a Washington DC. office. It gave the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood more of an ability to lobby, since it was the main group in that opposition group. As a result, that office gave the Muslim Brotherhood more power to subvert America and to turn it into a radical Islamic expansionist state.

In 2009, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has talks with the Syrian regime. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood broke away from the National Salvation Front, which made the NSF group pretty much nothing. Statfor reported that:

Stratfor received word in late January that the minority Alawite-Baathist regime led by Syrian President Bashar al Assad was engaged in backchannel discussions with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (MB). Several days later, the news broke publicly that the MB had broken off from the National Salvation Front, an umbrella opposition movement under the exiled leadership of former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam, and claimed that its main fight was with Israel, and not the Syrian regime. Without the MB, the National Salvation Front is little more than a nuisance for the Syrian regime.

The talks between the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood were mediated by radical Islamists, such as the regime in Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood's Spiritual Guide Yusuf al-Qaradawi. That Stratfor article also reported that:

But the Iranians have their own agenda for the Syrians. Syria has long pursued a foreign policy radically different from that of its Arab neighbors. The only real ally Syria has in the region is a Shiite power, Iran, which has a strong interest in keeping Syria within its fold to maintain Iranian influence in the Levant and sustain a supply line to Iran’s main militant proxy, Hezbollah, in Lebanon. When Stratfor first heard the news of the backchannels between Damascus and the MB, we noted that the highly influential, albeit controversial, Qatar-based Sunni cleric and spiritual leader of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, was involved in mediating the talks between Syrian MB leader Ali Sadreddine al-Bayanouni and the Syrian regime. But Stratfor has recently learned that another key mediator has helped kick-start these negotiations: Iran.
The Iranian embassy in London was apparently involved in arranging the regime’s rapprochement with the Syrian MB. Tensions between Damascus and Tehran have grown, and the Iranians were already wary about the Syrians negotiating with Israel. Now, with the United States accelerating its withdrawal from Iraq (thereby pacifying the Syrian government’s regime-change fears) and extending a diplomatic hand to Damascus, the Iranian regime wants to be sure that Syria does not stray too far from its alliance.

I'm no supporter of the Syrian regime. That regime is a terrorist regime, which set up a Fascist Arab nationalist dictatorship. It does support Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as the insurgents in Iraq and also carried out a terrorist occupation of Lebanon until 2005. Syria, like Arab nationalists, does seek to take over the whole Middle East. Syria seeks to set up greater Syria, which would mean the elimination of Israel and also to take over Lebanon. Syria also has an anti-American and anti-Israel alliance with Iran. Syria does oppress its own people, as well as arresting and killing those who seek to free and democratize Syria.

While Khaddam accused the Syrian regime of murdering Imad Mugniyeh to appease Israel, Syria supports Hezbollah. Both Syria and Hezbollah seek to eliminate Israel. Hezbollah also supported the Syrian terrorist occupation of Lebanon. 

To be fair, the NSF does rightly condemn Hezbollah, as seen here.

In a nutshell, Khaddam went from being associated with one group of terrorists, the Syrian regime when he was Vice President, and then to another group of terrorists, the Muslim Brotherhood, after he defected. Essentially, the main group of the NSF, until recently, was close to Al Qaeda. America and the west should be careful of the NSF.

America and the west should neither support the Syrian regime as a counterweight to the Muslim Brotherhood nor aid the Muslim Brotherhood in their quest to impose a radical Islamic state on Syria. The party the US should support is the Reform Party of Syria. That group seeks a democratic Syria, as well as opposed to both the Syrian regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. It is a pro-western group that seeks peace with Israel. It is a great group to support in order to help bring Middle East peace.