The man President Donald Trump hailed as a “tough guy” who will bring stability to Syria is empowering extremists tied to Al Qaeda. When Trump met Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Shara, in Riyadh, he ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump made a stunning forecast Wednesday that the “young, attractive” Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa — a longtime Al Qaeda ringleader — would establish diplomatic ...

Syrian president Ahmed al-Shara’s drive to centralize the country and marginalize minority communities shows no sign of abating. Despite lacking full territorial control or a monopoly on force, Shara ...

Authorities seize explosives, grenade launchers and firearms from alleged Hezbollah cell ...

President Ahmed al-Shara said the airstrike on Damascus threatened to escalate sectarian violence, in his sharpest criticism of Israel since he came to power. By Christina Goldbaum and Euan Ward ...

Abu Muhammed al-Julani (Ahmed al-Shara'a), Syria's president. The Islamist regime of Ahmad al-Shara’a in Damascus has declared war on Iran’s proxy in Lebanon, the Hezbollah terrorist army, with ...

One reason the Kurdish group, the Syrian Democratic Forces, is pushing back against Ahmed al-Shara’s calls for unity is that Turkey’s president, who views the SDF as a terror group, ‘has a lot of ...

The list of ministers appears to be a compromise between calls for a diverse cabinet to unite the divided country while keeping allies of the interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, in powerful roles. By ...