Jeremy Bowen: Syria's new ruler is politically astute - but can he keep his promises?
BBC speaks to Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa/ When I left London almost two weeks ago after the rebel coalition captured Aleppo - a stunning victory dwarfed by what followed - I thought I would be reporting a shooting war. The group known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, was sweeping all before it, but I assumed that the regime would fight, as it did not stop doing as it was losing ground in the years before the Russians intervened in 2015 to bomb Syrian towns and villages to rubble. Almost a decade later, it was clear that Bashar ...
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