By opportunism and necessity, according to Franco-Lebanese researcher Ziad Majed, who highlights Ahmad al-Sharaa's ambition, the latter may indeed be pushed towards a pragmatic, even technocratic ...

Find out why Ahmed al-Sharaa is one of the 100 most influential people of 2025. ... or if he’s more a pragmatic politician who exploited extremist groups to gain power. ...

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has been named one of the world’s 100 most influential leaders by Time Magazine in its annual list released on April 16. President al-Sharaa was included in the ...

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, ... "He is a pragmatic radical," Thomas Pierret, a specialist in political Islam, told AFP. "In 2014, ...

Foreign Minister al-Shibani has taken on the task of reframing and reaffirming a more pragmatic, less ideological Islamist stance, the one he champions alongside al-Sharaa.

The escape of Bashar al-Assad and the entry of Ahmed al-Sharaa into Damascus not only signifies the fall of the al-Assad regime but also the death of the Baathist ideology, which had already ...

Syria’s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, says holding elections in the war-ravaged country could take as long as four years. It is the first time the new Syrian leader has commented on a ...

The world is waiting to see whether Syria’s new leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa, aka Abu Mohamed Al-Jolani, will translate his words into action Monday, 30 June 2025 French | عربي Home ...

Top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Barbara Leaf said after the meeting that al-Sharaa came across as “pragmatic.” Published - January 30, 2025 11:09 am IST Read Comments ...

The Biden administration's $10M bounty on Ahmed al-Sharaa, leader of the group that overthrew Syria's Bashar al-Assad, has now been lifted. ... "He came across as pragmatic," Leaf said.

After meeting with HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, Leaf said Washington will no longer pursue the $10m bounty placed on Sharaa's head more than ...