{"id":50100,"date":"2024-12-18T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/watch-bbc-speaks-to-syrian-rebel-leader-ahmed-al-sharaa\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:37:00","slug":"watch-bbc-speaks-to-syrian-rebel-leader-ahmed-al-sharaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=50100","title":{"rendered":"Watch: BBC speaks to Syrian rebel leader Ahmed al-Sharaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Syria&#8217;s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said his country is exhausted by war and is not a threat to its neighbours or to the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC&#8217;s Jeremy Bowen in Damascus, Sharaa said sanctions on Syria should be lifted and that his group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), should be de-listed as a terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sharaa led HTS and other rebel groups in the offensive that toppled former President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s regime less than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read more on this story: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvgr0r112nno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&#8217;s de facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said his country is exhausted by war and is not&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4418,4419,1683,1020,3053,4374,4102,1334],"class_list":["post-50100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ahmed","tag-alsharaa","tag-bbc","tag-leader","tag-rebel","tag-speaks","tag-syrian","tag-watch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - 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