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Who is Ahmad al-Sharaa? Syria’s president who met Trump and once had $10m US bounty on his head

Who is Ahmad al-Sharaa? Syria’s president who met Trump and once had $10m US bounty on his head

Ahmad al-Sharaa, the militant leader who led the stunning insurgency that toppled Syria’s President Bashar Assad, has spent years working to remake his public image and that of his fighters

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