Al-Sharaa led the rebel offensive that toppled the Assad regime in 2024. He's a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison.

Syrian rebels overthrew dictator Bashar al Assad in December. Sharahh broke with al Qaeda in 2016. Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has transformed himself from al Qaeda militant to Syrian president in a ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – President Donald Trump will meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa ... of former leader Bashar Assad. “The President agreed to say hello ...

As Syria undergoes a precarious government transition under interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, now is a critical moment to hold members of the former regime ...

The government of new president Ahmed al-Sharaa is determined to recover public funds taken abroad in the run up to Assad's fall, a senior official told Reuters, to support Syria's economy as it ...

Clockwise Top L-R: Feras Fayyad; Citizens in Syria take down statues of Hafez al-Assad the father of Bashar al-Assad, in Damascus, Syria on December 9, 2024, A torn portrait of Bashar al-Assad ...

Syrian human rights activist Ribal al-Assad tore into Europe for lifting sanctions against the nation’s new "terrorist" regime, which he warned is no better than his first cousin, ousted leader ...

At least 400 people have been killed in northwest Syria after days of clashes between government forces and loyalists of former President Bashar al-Assad marked the deadliest violence since the ...

Armed militants, believed to be Assad loyalists, ambushed General Security Service (GSS) forces, resulting in multiple fatalities. The attack began in the village of Jableh in Latakia governorate, ...

The sanctions have been used to pressure the Al-Assad government which, the Council says, was responsible for “violent repression” of the civilian population. “Fall of the Al-Assad regime ...

Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government. By Raja ...

An account allegedly belonging to Asma al-Assad, wife of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, posted a series of tweets on X on Sunday, marking what appears to be her first public comments since ...