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Ahmad al-Sharaa

أحمد الشرع
Head of state In government Verified

De facto leader of Syria since the December 2024 fall of the Assad regime; founder and head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. Previously known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani.

Country
Syria
Party
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Role
Head of state

Individual position

Scored from Ahmad al-Sharaa's own documents rather than inherited from a party — capturing where this figure diverges from the party line. The overlay shows Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's profile for comparison. Provisional, document-grounded estimate; see methodology.

Ahmad al-Sharaa's spider profile vs. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Economic → Market Social → Libertarian State & religion → Secular state Liberal democracy → Strong commitment West alignment → Pro-Western Regional stance → Stability/normalization Palestinian question → Pro-Palestinian rights Civil liberties → Expand Regime stance → pro-regime Pan-Arab vs particularist → pan-Arab Centralism vs federalism → federalist Traditionalism vs modernization → modernizing Gender equality → Gender equality Iran posture → Pro-Iran / aligned Press freedom → Free press Sectarian power-sharing → Post-sectarian / civic state
Ahmad al-Sharaa Hayat Tahrir al-Sham
Axis scores
Economic —
Social —
State & religion -4.0
Liberal democracy —
West alignment —
Regional stance —
Palestinian question —
Civil liberties —
Regime stance -8.0
Pan-Arab vs particularist —
Centralism vs federalism —
Traditionalism vs modernization —
Gender equality —
Iran posture —
Press freedom —
Sectarian power-sharing —

Other politicians in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham

Politicians who share this party affiliation. Active in-government figures appear first; historical figures (dimmed) at the end. All affiliated →

On the record

Quotes attributed to Ahmad al-Sharaa that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

  • Syria is reclaiming its rightful place among the nations of the world.
    سوريا تستعيد مكانتها الحقيقية بين أمم العالم.
    2025 Sharaa, the first Syrian president to address the UN General Assembly in nearly 60 years, declaring the post-Assad doctrinal pivot. 24 September 2025. gadebate.un.org
  • We restructured civil and military institutions, dissolving all previous formations under the principle of ensuring weapons remain solely in the hands of the state.
    أعدنا هيكلة المؤسسات المدنية والعسكرية، وحلّ جميع التشكيلات السابقة وفق مبدأ أن يكون السلاح حصراً بيد الدولة.
    2025 Sharaa announcing the dissolution of HTS itself — the rebel formation that brought him to power — as part of the state-monopoly-on-arms doctrine. 80th UNGA, Sep 2025. gadebate.un.org
  • A new history, my brothers, is being written today in the entire region.
    يا إخواني، تاريخ جديد يكتب اليوم في المنطقة بأسرها.
    2024 Victory address at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on the day Bashar al-Assad's government fell after a twelve-day rebel offensive — the first public statement from the incoming transitional leadership. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikipedia.org

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default 
Gara, T. (2026). Ahmad al-Sharaa [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharaa
Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals 
Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ahmad al-Sharaa." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharaa.
BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers 
@misc{tayyar-sharaa,
  title     = {{Ahmad al-Sharaa}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/sharaa},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint 
Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper
BibTeXPreprint 
@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.