Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham rebel leader Abu Mohammed Jolani called on the Syrian diaspora to return and “build the next Syria” as he gave a speech inside the Imam Shafi’i Mosque in Damascus on Wednesday. More than six million Syrians left the country as refugees since the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, with most of them now living in Turkey, Lebanon and Germany. | Middle East Eye

Latifa Al-Droubi appears alongside husband Ahmed Al-Sharaa | Roya News English

302K views · 5.2K reactions | Less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria's President Ahmed Al-Sharaa is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as much about the young leader as it does his push for his country's diplomatic reinvention. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/4qSCDsT | CNN International | Facebook