Syrian interim president has not yet demonstrated any concrete readiness to move toward genuine national reconciliation or genuine dialogue, whether with the SDF or the Druze and Alawites
Ahmed al-Sharaa visited Washington D.C. and met with U.S. President Donald Trump on November 10, 2025. This was an additional step toward strengthening his international power, especially since it came after the UN Security Council. Under the initiative ...
The West is trying to lay the groundwork for gaining leverage over the current authorities in Damascus
It has been six months since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [
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] group led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani (now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa) seized power in Syria. Shortly before that, half a world away, Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidential election, and all eyes turned to see what his foreign policy would look like. Nobody was watching more closely than Syria’s new ...
... the U.S. and the Gulf states
The first two months of the new authorities in Damascus could hardly provide us with a clear vision of Syria’s future. Meanwhile, the Transitional President of Syria and former Emir of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) [
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], Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, is trying to preserve his grip on power, maintain control over all armed groups within HTS, conduct (or at least declare) a non-sectarian policy and protect all minorities in the country. At the ...
