He waved a black vehicle ceiling opening surrounded by a large crowd of chanting. Syrian President Ahmed Al -Sharra appeared in a video to receive something from the hero on his first visit to Latakia, once the stronghold of the Assad family whose brutal regime, which helped to overthrow more than two months ago.
Later on Sunday, Shara Tartus visited the lion’s stronghold about 50 miles south along the Mediterranean, where the video showed him waving from a balcony where hundreds of people chanted below.
The two videos, who were involved on social media and verification of NBC News, emerged, where the SR government nominates a successful visit to each of the cities of the two port, with experts describing the viewer as indicating a pivotal moment in the rebel leader’s campaign to prove that he could fulfill his promise to build Syria more united .
Charles Leicester, a colleague of the oldest and head of the Syria Institute at the Middle East Institute, said in a position on X on on Sunday, a reaction to the Shay Raish reception video.
“This is a flow of goodwill and a feeling of optimism in what may be able to present it to the country,” Burku Ozslik, Royal United Services Fellow, a London -based research company, told NBC News. Monday. But she also warned that these scenes are most likely “carefully designed to capture the enthusiasm that he summoned throughout the country, even in previous growth strongholds.”
In addition to meeting with Tartus and Latakia actors, Sharaa also met with prominent numbers in Aleppo Province earlier on Sunday, according to the State News Agency in Syria. His visit to Aleppo came after he met with the leaders of society from his former stronghold in Idlib County in northwestern Syria, according to the news agency. Shara visited the city of Idlib, in addition to camps that host hundreds of thousands of people displaced by the Assad regime, according to Langua.
Western countries have maintained the attention of Shara closely as they are weighing his past as a former jihadist leader linked to the link of the terrorist group to the Islamic State and Al -Qaeda against the image that he sought to display as interest figures pledged to present a comprehensive representative of Syria to the country’s diversity in religious and ethnic societies.
Within a little more than two months since she led Shayat Tahrir Al-Sham, or HTS, rebel leaders ’leaders to overthrow the dictator Bashar al-Assad, there was already a flash of doubt that the new administration could move away from its Islamic tendencies.
But Shay, who showed a willingness to restore calibration in the face of criticism, also made remarkable progress in his efforts to reassure Western leaders that he is looking for a future for Syria that does not pose a threat to the West.
“There are skeptical inside the country and abroad who continue to see red flags about” transition “, noting that these days are still early in the leadership of Shara,” Ozlick said.
But she added: “It may be wise to stop for a moment and we are thinking about the possibility that this is a real shift, and in the interest of the Syrian people, their neighbors and the international community.”
With a large part of his schedule -dominated schedule with its counterparts around the world and media interviews with international outlets, this is certainly the impression that Shara sought to build.
in statement Last week, the outgoing Canadian Prime Minister’s office, Justin Trudeau, said that he had spoken with Shara, as the two leaders agreed to “the importance of a comprehensive political process to ensure permanent peace and stability for all Syrians.”
Shara also spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. The Kremlin, which greatly supported the Assad regime throughout the deadly civil war in Syria, including through military intervention, described the discussion as “building and businessmen” and covers “sharp issues of practical cooperation in trade, economy, education and other fields” as he looks to continue The use of marine bases and air inside Syria.
The call was a visit to Damascus by a delegation of Russian officials last month, which represents the first such trip since the overthrow of Assad. The dictator was granted asylum by Moscow, Russian government media reported.