I woke to voice notes from Mazen, his Suwayda Druze dialect thick with tears. “Jolani’s ISIS are massacring us,” he said, referring to the forces of Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, formerly known as ...
Ahmed al Sharaa used to be known as Abu Mohammed al Jolani—Al Qaeda’s man in Syria. Now he’s known as the president of Syria. Sharaa is in New York City this week, headlining the UN General Assembly ...