Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday declared his support for his Lebanese counterpart Joseph Aoun in the latter’s effort to disarm Hezbollah.
The Middle East war expanded to Lebanon on March 2, after Tehran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel in response to the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei on the first day of US-Israeli attacks on Iran
Since March 2, Israel has been conducting large-scale air raids on Lebanon and incursions with ground troops, killing at least 486 people according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Honestly, I don’t know a ton of details about him as I wasn’t politically aware when he obtained political power. However, I am friends with a Syrian who’s family despises him for sectarian reasons. A shia muslim holding such immense governing power over a vast majority sunni population always felt like a powder keg to me. Or atleast a pressure point to be exploited by the imperialist nations. I’m sure his economic policies were decent enough though.