Ahmad Al-Sharaa has cycled through masks in pursuit of power: He began with the jihadi face under Baghdadi, shifted to the Al-Qaeda brand to replace his boss, then adopted a watered-down jihadist identity to rule over Idlib, and now cloaks himself in Syrian nationalist and liberal rhetoric..
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He frames it as personal growth, saying: "a man in his 20s won’t think like he does in his 30s, 40s, or 50s."
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