{"id":3957,"date":"2025-09-24T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/al-sharaa-promises-a-new-syria-free-of-its-wretched-past\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:43:17","slug":"al-sharaa-promises-a-new-syria-free-of-its-wretched-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/09\/24\/al-sharaa-promises-a-new-syria-free-of-its-wretched-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Sharaa promises a new Syria free of its &#8216;wretched past&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a man who one year ago had a U.S. bounty on his head strode to the center of the world stage as the President of Syria. Ahmed Al-Sharaa fought the Assad regime for more than a decade and fought Americans in Iraq before that. Ali Rogin discussed Al-Sharaa&#8217;s with former Ambassador James Jeffrey.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a man who one year ago had a U.S. bounty on his head strode to the center of the world stage as the President of Syria. Ahmed Al-Sharaa fought the Assad regime for more than a decade and fought Americans in Iraq before that. Ali Rogin discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}