Despite his Islamist background, al-Sharaa has shown more pragmatic than ideological since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.

We at Ahly don’t know the word ‘impossible’,” said Egyptian winger Hussein El-Shahat as he looked ahead to a high-stakes FIFA ...

Hussein returns from Cairo. The new Baath government is overthrown ... fifth president of Iraq with the retirement of President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. 1979 - Hussein expels 40,000 Shiite Muslims ...