Moderate enough? West eyes normalisation with HTS-led Syria

Just as the leader of the Islamist-led alliance that toppled Syria’s Assad announced he was shedding his wartime alias Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, can Ahmed al-Sharaa’s HTS shed its past as the al-Nusra Front, a hardline offshoot of al Qaeda? FRANCE 24’s Wassim Nasr was one of just a handful of journalists to interview Sharaa on Monday.



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