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When I interviewed Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus on Feb. 27, neither one of us knew ...

More than a decade had passed since Ahmed al-Sharaa squeezed into the narrow lift that went up to his parents’ 10th-floor ...

Until recently, he had styled himself al-Fatih Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, a nom de guerre reflecting ... including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Sharaa entered the detention system relatively low in the ...

The new administration is led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of HTS. According to reports, Assad loyalists, who still have a foothold in Syria's coastal ...

Events have erupted again on the Syrian scene after nearly three months since the fall of the Assad regime, this time from ...

Once an al-Qaeda fighter, Abu Mohammed al-Golani is now the de facto ruler of Idlib, Syria, balancing between terrorism and ...

AIPAC and AJC are taking a cautiously hopeful approach to the new government in Damascus, while Israel is growing ...

Abu Mohammed al-Jolani — has attempted to prevent sectarian bloodletting in a country emerging from 14 years of brutal civil war. But while Damascus has remained relatively stable, killings have ...

“[Abu Mohammed] al-Julani switched his robe for a suit and presented a moderate face,” Katz said in a statement, using the nom de guerre of interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa. “Now he ...