Once a member of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State and now the fragile transition of Syria has been leading since the overthrow of the Bashar Assad regime, Ahmed Al-Sharaa is ready to go to the Global Center stage on Wednesday at the General Assembly of the United Nations and his case for a new way to be torn by war.
“On such a historical occasion, what he will try to emphasize and underlines is that this is a new day for Syria. They have overthrown the brutal dictatorship of the Assad regime. He will talk about the progress that has been made and what more progress must be made in terms of recognition and the elimination of UN Syria to continue.”
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Interim Syria president Ahmed al-Sharaa speaks during the Concordia Annual Summit in New York, Monday 22 September 2025. (Photo/Andres Kudacki)
“The most important issues he will be on the agenda are the need to lift all forms of unilateral sanctions that continue to hinder the recovery of Syria, the importance of combating terrorism in all its forms, the return of displaced Syrians and refugees, and the progress of a real inclusive political trial, said the will of the Syric’s will.
Al-Sharaa, who led the Islamic rebel group Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to victory over Assad, dumped his military fatigue for a Western lawsuit and has organized a charm-offensive, with European and Western diplomats and politicians to bring Syria from the international paria-datus from the international paria-datus.
The new Syrian leader received an unprecedented approval from President Donald Trump when the two met each other in Riyad, Saudi -Arabia, in May.
Trump called Al-Sharaa a ‘young, attractive, tough guy’, in which he announced that the US would eliminate sanctions since the Assad era and even discuss the normalization of relationships.
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Hall noted that Al-Sharaa may want to protect a safety pact between Israel and Syria along the Unga-Zijlijn, and emphasizes that he is looking for a Syria that is in peace with his neighbors and does not want to position that Syria is a threat to an external forces, in particular Israël.
He will also be looking for the much -needed reconstruction aids to rebuild a country through 13 years of civil war. The costs for reconstruction are estimated at $ 250 and $ 400 billion, and 16.7 million people, or 75% of the population, have an urgent need for humanitarian aid, according to the UN
Since he seized Damascus, he has publicly said the right things. He promised an inclusive government that would represent all religious and ethnic factions in Syria, maintain the rights of women and protect the rights of minorities.
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Al-Sharaa has also fulfilled promises to focus on ISIS and other terrorist groups that are active in Syria. A month after taking power, Syrian security forces seized a shipping of heavy ammunition intended for Hezbollah in Lebanon, once an important ally of the Assad regime and the resistance of Iran.
Although optimism remains high for a new Syria, it is still too early to judge Al-Sharaa as a Western ally, given his terrorist past.
Ford, who was the last American ambassador in Damascus in 2011, said that the crucial question is whether individual political and bourgeois freedoms will be respected over time and that people will retain, retain the freedom to organize and protest.
State Secretary Marco Rubio shakes hands with the Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa in the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, on the sidelines of the 80th General Meeting of the United Nations at the United Nations headquarters, Monday 22 September 2025. (Bing Guan/Pool -Photo via AP)
“Al-Shara’s heavy hand-ruling Idlib prior to the fall of Assad is lighter in Damascus, Aleppo and elsewhere. But so far there is more political freedom to speak and protest in Syria than in many other countries in the region, such as Egypt, Algeria and some Gulf States,” Ford added.
Ambassador Barbara Leaf, who served as an assistant minister of Foreign Affairs for nearby Eastern Affairs, visited Damascus and met Shara in December, and was the highest ranked official to meet Syrian leadership since the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in 2011.
“My pick -up meals from the meeting was that he came across as someone who was very well prepared for the discussion. He clearly expected all the subjects I addressed and he had quite thoughtful reactions with a willingness to switch,” she said.
Syrian security forces walk together along a street, after collisions between Syrian government forces and local Druze -Jagers were resumed in the southern city of Druze City of Sweida on Wednesday, the stuffed -the fires announced only a few hours earlier that were intended to end days of deadly sectarian blood alp (Karam Al-Masri/Reuters)
Al-Sharaa has made a point several times to say that Syria would no longer be a threat or an attempting point for threats against his neighbors, including Israel, and that he would not allow the Iranians, Hezbollah or Palestinian groups to use Syrian territory to perform terrorist activities, said the Ambassadur.
“I felt that he was already shifting from a military commander to politician, to being a political leader,” noted Ambassador Leaf.
While Ambassador Leaf emphasized its pragmatism, his true intentions such as the new leader of Syria remain cloudy.
The ambassador said it seems that Al-Sharaa has completed a process of his jihadist terrorist past, but it remains a question of how far he is willing to go to what she thinks is an intention to form an Islamist style of directors.
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“Does he want to formulate a kind of Islamist administration, conservative administration and social order that, to be honest, has not seen Syria? And would he be willing to use violence? That is an unknown,” the ambassador warned.
Regarding Ambassador Leaf and others, many of the people who play in an important role in the transitional government are close employees of Al-Sharaa and others are affiliated with HTS and other Allied armed rebel groups.
Ahmed al-Sharaa, once known under his Nom de Guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, can be seen in Syria on February 7, 2023. Since he became the president of the country, he has returned to his first name. (Omar Haj Kadour/AFP via Getty images)
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While the new government of Syria has looked to consolidate control over a remaining society, Shara’s troops had to manage a fragile society that was divided along ethnic and religious lines.
Since the revolution, Syria has experienced a wave of sectarian violence to overthrow Assad. The government’s security forces take revenge after the armed forces who were loyal to the Assad regime, launched an attack in the coastal city of Latakia, the place of residence of Assad. In total, around 1,400 people, mainly citizens, were slaughtered, according to the UN most victims of the AlaWites, a minority group in Syria, to which the Assad family belonged, as well as the Druze community.
It was the worst episode of violence since the overthrow of Assad in December 2024.
On this photo released by the Syrian official news agency Sana, a civil defense worker inspects the damage in Mar Elias Church where a suicide bomber exploded in Dewil’a on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, Sunday 22 June 2025. (Sana via AP)
Collisions between Bedouin tribes, Druze militia and government forces in Suweida led to hundreds of deaths and pulled in Israeli military intervention -to protect the Druzeness of Syria. In the end, a ceasefire was agreed, but the spiral ethnic violence emphasizes the rocky transition of Syria.
The declining Christian community of the country has also felt the victim of extremist violence. In June, the Islamic State was suspected of performing a deadly suicide bombing in a Greek -Orthodox Church in Syria, killing 22 worshipers and 63 others were injured. Christians were also attacked and, in some cases, murdered, reportedly by troops that are bound to the government of Al-Shara.
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The new authorities will also have to include Kurdish troops that are active in northeastern Syria, where the Syrian Democratic troops have been crucial for the Counter-Isis campaign led by the US. Any disruptions of merging the SDF into the Syrian state arouses the risk of a revival of ISIS.
