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Ahmed al-Sharaa
President of Syria since 2025
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Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa[a] (born 29 October 1982), also known by the nom de guerre[b]Abu Mohammad al-Julani,[c] is a Syrian revolutionary, military commander, and politician who has served as the president of Syria since 29 January 2025.
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, he grew up in the capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa 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. Al-Sharaa 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. He resisted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's attempts to merge al-Nusra Front with the Islamic State, leading to war between the two groups.
In 2016, al-Sharaa cut al-Nusra's ties with al-Qaeda. Since breaking with al-Qaeda, he has sought international legitima
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Rory Arthur: Injury consigned to the past, Dubai Exiles youngster faces a bright rugby future
A season that was blighted by injury at just the wrong moment ended in a run of triumphs for a Dubai schoolboy in senior men’s rugby.
When Rory Arthur broke a bone in his foot in November in the last tune-up tournament before the Dubai Rugby Sevens, it had a number of effects.
Firstly, it meant he would miss the sevens season's big weekend, and that Dubai English Speaking College’s Gulf Under 19 title-defence would be derailed by the loss of one of their outstanding players.
And it led to more than three months on the sidelines, just as he was on the brink of establishing himself in the men’s first XV at Dubai Exiles.
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Despite all that disappointment, he returned in remarkable fashion. The teenage outside-centre made three starts for Exiles at the end of the campaign.
The first was in the West Asia Cup final in front of a packed crowd in Bahrain. Then he played a key role in the UAE Premiership final