'Conditions were different': Syria’s President al-Sharaa confronted over al-Qaeda past

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa speaks about his past pledge of allegiance to Ayman al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda leader. “I don’t believe that it is an appropriate time to discuss things that happened 25 years ago,” he tells the Atlantic Council’s Brett McGurk, going on to explain his perspective on the context in the region at the time.
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