DAMASCUS Syrian President Ahmad al- Sharaa will speak at the United Nations General Assembly next month, a Foreign Ministry official told AFP on Aug. 25, the first Syrian leader to do so in decades. Sharaa "will take part in the United Nations General Assembly in New York where he will deliver a speech .” Sharaa took power in December 2024 after his Islamist group led a coalition of forces that toppled longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad after nearly 14 years of grueling civil war. "He will be the

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