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 ...