Syria has been led by interim president Ahmed Al-Sharaa, the leader of former al Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, since the group led a coalition of rebels to topple the Assad regime last year.

the first such top-level contact since the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Rebels led by al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group ousted Moscow’s close ally in December after a ...

In December 2024, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a surprise offensive against Syrian regime forces, leading to the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime and his escape to Russia. This marked ...

With Assad now gone, the newly formed government of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has vowed to seek ... even with the civil war in Syria being one of the better monitored conflicts ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), now at Syria's helm, has launched a comprehensive scrutiny of the billion-dollar empires held by allies of former President Bashar al-Assad, aiming to eliminate corruption.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lauded Syria’s interim president Thursday despite the fact Ahmed al-Sharaa leads a group Canada still designates as a terrorist organization. Canada has listed ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syria’s interim president, has detailed his journey from joining al-Qaeda in Iraq to leading Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria, shedding light on key moments ...

"Over the past 14 years, Syria has gone through circumstances that were no less difficult and dangerous than those it experienced at the end of November and the beginning of last December," he wrote, ...

Syria’s relations with Iran and Russia remain an open wound for its people after those nations backed autocratic President Bashar al-Assad during the long civil war, the country’s new foreign ...

Syria’s new president ... year and a half,” he said. Al-Sharaa, declared president for a transitional phase after his militant group “Hayat Tahrir al-Sham” (HTS) led the overthrow of ...