Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former jihadist rehabilitated by Trump who has brought Syria in from the cold
Defined as a shrewd and ambitious man, the leader of the Arab country has combined a firm hand with openness since bringing down the Assad regime
Ragheed al-Tatari, the face of freedom in Syria after 43 years in Assad’s prisons
The longest-serving political prisoner under the regime is now revered as a hero. ‘I was always free here,’ he declares, tapping his temple
Syrian Christians after the fall of the regime: ‘We don’t want to be second-class citizens’
While there is cautious optimism among the communities in Aleppo, which have lived with HTS for longer, in the Damascus region there is wariness over the rise to power of an Islamist group, heir to the jihadism that attacked churches a decade ago