Ahmed al-Sharaa
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Demographics
Gender Male
Birth Name Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa [أحمد الشرع]
Birthplace Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Birth Date October 29, 1982
Ethnicity West Asian
Overview Levantine Arab
Nationality Syrian
Career Politician, revolutionary, paramilitary commander
Color Season Dark Winter
Notes and Motifs
Je politician
President of Syria, since 29 January 2025
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights
Grew up in the capital, Damascus
Joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fought for three years in the Iraqi insurgency
American forces captured and imprisoned him from 2006 to 2011. His release coincided with the Syrian Revolution against the Ba'athist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad
Created the al-Nusra Front in 2012 with the support of al-Qaeda to fight the Assad regime in the Syrian civil war
As emir of the al-Nusra Front, al-Sharaa built a stronghold in the northwestern Idlib Governorate
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