Ahmad Farhat Translated by Al-Manar English Website The Taliban’s resurgence in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal in 2021 inspired Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria. This influence was evident at a September 2021 symposium in Idlib titled “Jihad and Resistance in the Islamic World… The Taliban as a Model,” where ...
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 ...