Syria: The man behind the mission to heal decade-old wounds in the Sunni majority

Since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December 2024, one of the huge challenges the new government has faced is that of division. Syrian society is made up of different sectarian and ethnic groups -- the Alawites, the Kurds, the Druze... -- but division also exists within the country’s biggest group: the Sunni Muslim majority. Our terrorism expert, Wassim Nasr, travelled to Syria last month and tells us what he learnt about this nascent new government led by ex-jihadist Ahmad al-Sharaa.