Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the United States and Syria had ...

The US president warmly greeted former al-Qaeda ... five years without being charged. The group's Iraqi leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, sent Mr Sharaa to his native Syria in 2011 after a popular ...

President Trump met Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharaa, highlighting the stunning reversal in fortunes for a former Islamist militant with ties to al Qaeda ...