Welcome back to Al-Monitor Israel.Israeli officials are divided over whether to seize the moment and pursue a security ...

Less than two weeks after Ahmad al-Sharaa ousted Bashar al-Assad in Syria, a U.S. State Department delegation arrived in ...

A parody news account shared a fabricated image of Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa meeting with Israeli Prime ...

A purported audio of Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa from 2014 has emerged wherein he is heard telling his militant fighters ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa is the current president of Syria, having also ousted the regime of dictator Bashar al-Assad with his armed rebel Islamist movement Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). He is also known by ...

Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, looks on during a joint press conference with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, Feb. 4, 2025.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the heavily-bearded former Islamist insurgent who was once the target of U.S. counterterrorism operations, has taken another step towards full acceptance under ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa rose from al Qaeda militant to Syrian leader. President Trump's decision to lift U.S. santions on Syria is a major boost for Sharaa.

Al-Sharaa (left), 42, is a career militant who fought US troops as a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq in the early 2000s before founding the terrorist group’s Nusra Front affiliate in Syria in 2012.

Last December, after years of building a powerful armed faction—Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, classified internationally as a terrorist group—Ahmed al-Sharaa and his rebel alliance toppled Bashar ...

US President Donald Trump said that he enjoyed meeting Syria's "young, attractive" interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Wednesday in Damascus. "[He's] a young, attractive guy. Tough guy," Trump ...