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Once, a member of the Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and now after topping the Bashar Assad rule, Ahmed Al-Shara is ready to take the Global Center for the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly and is moving its case forward for a new path for its warfare nation at the United Nations General Assembly.
Natasha Hall, senior colleague of The Center for Strategic and International Studies, said, “It marks the first participation in the Syrian President’s high-level meetings at the United Nations General Assembly since 1967, so it is a very big thing.”
“On such a historical occasion, the one who will try to emphasize and underline is that it is a new day for Syria. They have uprooted the cruel dictatorship of the Assad regime. He will talk about the progress that needs more progress in terms of recognition and need to lift the United Nations restrictions to help Syria move forward,” Hall said.
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Ahmed Al-Shra, president of the interim Syrian, speaks on Monday, September 22, 2025 during the Concorda Annual Summit in New York. (Photo/Andres Kudki)
A high-ranked Syrian government official confirmed Fox News Digital that Al-Shara would use the opportunity to present Syria’s vision for stability, reconstruction and reconciliation in the United Nations.
“In the most important issues he will raise all forms, including the need to lift unilateral restrictions that obstruct Syria’s recovery, the importance of combating terrorism in all its forms, the refund of displaced Syrian and refugees, and the desire of the Syrian people the advancement of a real inclusive political process.”
Al-Shara, who led the Islamist rebel group Heayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to win on Assad, dug up his military fatigue for a western-style suit and remained on an attraction aggressive, in the hope of bringing Syrians out of his international paria position to European and Western diplomats and politicians.
The new Syrian leader received an unprecedented support from President Donald Trump when the two met in Mayad, Saudi Arabia in May.
Trump called Al-Shra “young, attractive, strict man”, announcing that the US would lift sanctions since the Assad era and even discussed normalizing relations.
People welcome the leader of the Syrian Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group, which led to an electrical aggressive invasive snatching of the government’s control, Ahmed al-Shara (C) on 8 December 2024, before his address at the Landmark Umayad Mosque in the capital, snatching Damascus from the control, Ahmed al-Shara (C). Showed Telegram Channel. (Aref Tammawi/AFP through Getty Image)
The hall stated that Al-Shra is looking to secure a security agreement between Israel and Syria, stressing that he looks for a Syria that is peacefully with its neighbors and does not want to threaten any external strength, especially Israel to Syria.
He must also be looking at the very important reconstruction assistance for reconstruction of the country destroyed by a 13 -year civil war. According to the United Nations, reconstruction costs $ 250 and $ 400 billion and 16.7 million people, or 75% population, or 75% of the population is strictly needed by humanitarian aid
Since seizing Damascus, he has publicly said all the right things. He promised an inclusive government that would represent all religious and ethnic groups in Syria, maintain women’s rights and protect minority rights.
The Syrian -run Islamist group has set a mixed record on governance in the province, ruled with the ‘Iron Fist’.
Al-Sara also fulfilled the promise of targeting ISIS and other terrorist groups working in Syria. A month after assuming power, the Syrian security forces seized a shipment of huge ammunition fixed for Hizbullah in Lebanon, once a prominent ally of Assad rule and Iran’s resistance.
While optimism is more for a new Syria, to take some precautions it is still a Western ally to judge Al-Shara as a Western ally.
Syrian Robert Ford’s former US ambassador told Fox News Digital, “Al-Shra is not a Democrat. He ruled the Idlib without power-sharing. So far, in the case of control of important government works like security, foreign affairs, intelligence and justice, he has placed the loyalists in place.”
Ford, who was the last US ambassador in Damascus in 2011, said the important question is whether over time, personal political and civilian freedom will be respected and people will maintain, as they now have, freedom to organize and protest.
State Secretary Marco Rubio joined hands with Syrian Interim President Ahmed Al-Shra at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, United Nations Headquarters, Monday, September 22, 2025 at the New York Palace Hotel on the banks of the 80th United Nations General Assembly. (Bing Guan/Pool Photo through AP)
Before the collapse of Assad, Al-Shara’s heavy hand has been light in the ruling Idlib Damascus, Aleppo and other places. But so far, Syria has more political freedom to speak and oppose many other countries in the region, such as Egypt, Algeria and some Gulf states, “.
Ambassador Barbara Leaf, who worked as Assistant Secretary for Eastern Affairs nearby, visited Damascus and met Shara in December, became the highest ranked officer with Syrian leadership since the outbreak of Syrian Civil War in 2011.
Leaf, a prestigious diplomatic partner with the Middle East Institute, told Fox News Digital to HTS about his early contact with Shara after overthrowing Asad. His mission was to keep an eye on him, assessing him and send a clear indication on American expectations whether he was going to lead a new Syria.
He said, “My tech was from the meeting that he came up as someone who was very well prepared for discussion. He clearly estimated all the subjects that I had raised and he had very thoughtful reactions with a readiness to attach,” he said.
The Syrian security forces walk together with a road, after clashes between Syrian government troops and local druz fighters, the southern draus started again in the city of Sweda, declared a ceasefire a few hours ago, announcing a ceasefire, which was aimed at ending the days of Deadly Secturian Bloodshed, which was in Swarna, July 16, 2025. (Karam al-Masri/Reuters)
Al-Shra made a point several times to say that Syria would not now be a threat or staging point for dangers against its neighbors, including Israel, and will not allow Iranian, Hizbullah or Palestinian groups to use the Syrian region to conduct terrorist activities.
“I understood that he was already making a change to be a politician to be a politician from being a military commander,” said Ambassador Leaf.
While Ambassador Leaf highlighted his practicality, his true intentions as the new Syrian leader remain Merkey.
The ambassador said that it appears that Al-Shara has traveled to a trajectory away from his jihadi terrorist past, but it is a question that how far he is ready to go to go which she believes that she is intended to create an Islamist style of governance.
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“Does he want to create a kind of Islamist rule, conservative rule and social system that Syria has not seen clearly? And would he be ready to use force to reach there? It’s an unknown,” the ambassador warned.
What is for Ambassador leaf and others, it is that many of the people serving in the leading roles in the transitional government are ally close to Al-Shara and other HTS and other affiliated armed rebel groups.
“Al-Sara is still engaged in a careful balance act within his government among liberal opposition voices, former governance bureaucrats and more Islamist supporters,” a careful balance within his government, which are still aligned with HTS missions and principles, “told to Fox News Digital.
Ahmed al-Shara, once known by his nome de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-de-wise Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is seen in Syria on 7 February 2023. Since becoming the President of the country, he has gone back to his given name. (Umar Haj Kadore/AFP Getty Image)
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Rose, who traveled to Syria earlier this year, said that Syrian’s complex political mobility has not only inspired the gridlock, but also in disability in the time of crisis, “such as Latakia and Suveda failure to curb the staunch Sunni fighters during the violent outbreaks, such as more helter elements of the support of the support of the support, such as the cooperation of the support of the support.
While the new government of Syria has seen a rest to strengthen the control of society, Sharp’s armies had to manage a delicate society divided with ethnic and religious lines.
Syria has experienced a wave of communal violence since the revolution to overthrow Assad. Following loyal forces towards the Assad regime, government security forces retaliated, which was attacked in the coastal city of Latakia, the coastal city of the hometown of Asad. Overall, around 1,400 people, most of the citizens were massacred, a minority group in Syria of the United Nations, according to most of the victims of Alvites, who were also from the Asad family as well as the Drews community.
This was the worst episode of violence since the uproot of Assad in December 2024.
In this picture released by Syrian official news agency Sana, a civil defense activist inspected the damage inside the Maria Eliias Church, where a suicide bomber exploded himself at Damascus, Syria, Sunday, June 22, 2025 in Dawil on the outskirts of 22 June, 2025. (Sana through AP)
Clashes between government forces in Bedouin tribes, Drews militia and Suvida made hundreds of deaths and attracted to Israel’s military intervention – to protect the Syria’s drews minority. A ceasefire finally agreed, but the spiral ethnic violence sheds light on the rocky transition of Syria.
The declining Christian community of the country has also felt the brunt of extremist violence. In June, the Islamic State was suspected of a deadly suicide bombing at a Greek Orthodox Church in Syria, killing 22 worshipers and injuring 63 others. Christians have also been attacked and, in some cases, killed, allegedly by al-Shara government tied to the government.
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