Once one of the world’s most wanted men, Ahmed al-Sharaa, who was once better known by his nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is now being celebrated in New York. The former head of Syria’s al-Nusra Front, who once had a $10 million bounty on his head for orchestrating multiple attacks across Syria, stood this week before cheering crowds outside the United Nations as he prepared for his first-ever address as Syria’s president.

In a surreal twist, he later took the stage for a rare interview with retired US General David Petraeus, the very officer once responsible for his capture.

According to a report by Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera , Sharaa and retired four-star US General David Petraeus both acknowledged the peculiarity of the moment when they shared the stage. Petraeus had comma

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