Syria's new leader warned on Wednesday that Israel's persistent attacks put the region at risk, but he backed diplomacy as he won support on his UN debut. Ahmed al-Sharaa is the first Syrian president to address the annual UN General Assembly in decades, marking a rapid transformation for a former jihadist who until last year had a US bounty on his head. We speak to Aaron Y. Zelin, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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