US EditionSyria's Ahmed Al-Sharaa Debuts at U.N. After 'the Biggest Plot Twist in ...
Ahmed al-Sharaa ended Syria's 14-year civil war after an 11-day campaign and now seeks international support to rebuild amid poverty affecting over 90% of Syrians, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will address the United Nations General Assembly, marking Syria's first presidential speech there in nearly 60 years as he seeks international support.
- After breaking with jihadist networks in 2016, Sharaa led an 11-day campaign that ended Syria's 14-year civil war and rapidly recast himself as a statesman.
- On the sidelines of the General Assembly, Sharaa is scheduled to hold high-level meetings after disrupting Captagon production and distribution, analysts say.
- Most Syrians celebrated the end of the Assad family's 50-year rule and exiles planned returns, but historian Amr al-Azm warns lifting sanctions is only one step as more than 90 percent of Syrians live in poverty.
- Sectarian violence is rising, prompting concerns about religious minorities in Syria as Sharaa says, `In the face of this aggression, Syria is committed to dialogue` despite U.N. sanctions and Israeli attacks.
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Syria’s future is sectarian
From jihadi to statesman, Ahmed al-Sharaa has become renowned for smashing the Middle East’s old certainties. And yesterday, as he stepped up to the UN’s famous green dais, he upturned another: as the first Syrian leader to speak in New York for over half a century. The last time that happened was in the long-lost world of 1967, three years before the Assads took power in a military coup. But now, speaking to his fellow leaders, al-Sharaa promis…
Syria's Jihadi President Asks U.N. for Money, Promising an 'Inclusive' Government
Syria’s interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa gave one of the shortest addresses to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. The post Syria’s Jihadi President Asks U.N. for Money, Promising an ‘Inclusive’ Government appeared first on Breitbart.
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