Ahmad Farhat Translated and Edited by Al-Manar English Website Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) has undergone extensive political and ideological transformations since its emergence as an affiliate of Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS) under Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. In a speech given in 2013, Al-Baghdadi described HTS leader ...
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najb Mikati arrived in Damascus on Saturday for talks with Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, marking the first visit by a sitting Lebanese premier to Syria in over a decade. Mikati, accompanied by a senior delegation including Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib and top security ...