PBS Interviews Ambassador Leaf for Documentary on PostAssad Syria
Senior International Policy Advisor and former U.S. Ambassador Barbara Leaf was recently featured in the PBS FRONTLINE documentary, “Syria After Assad”, which explores the aftermath of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s fall and the rise of new leader Ahmad al-Sharaa.
Leaf, who led the U.S. State Department delegation that met with al-Sharaa following Assad’s ouster, offered a candid assessment of the challenges facing Syria’s new leadership. “He’s making mistakes,” Leaf said, adding that “if he wants a stable Syria, he’s going to be compelled to take into account the changed landscape of Syria — changed by 14 years of this brutal civil war — but he has to look at a longer scope of history where these communities were pitted against one another.”
