Asaad al-Shaibani Before Politics: From Al-Nusra Fighter to Syria’s Foreign Minister

Asaad al-Shaibani, Syria’s current Foreign Minister, has become one of the most closely watched figures in the country’s post-Assad political order. Before holding this office, he spent over a decade inside Syria’s opposition and jihadist-turned-political movements, most notably Al-Nusra Front and its later reincarnation, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). His transformation from a wartime operative into […]

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