Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls for the head of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month.

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says that elections in the country could take four years, citing the need for a new constitution and political dialogue with the country's various factions.

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa met with senior Christian clerics on Tuesday, amid calls on the Islamist chief to guarantee minority rights after seizing power earlier this month."The leader of the new Syrian administration,

Sharaa, the head of the armed group HTS said it would be four years before elections were held in Syria. He also reached out to Iran and Russia, the former allies of ex-dictator Bashar al-Assad.

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa on Sunday told al-Arabiya TV that elections could take four years, noted the importance of ties with Iran and Russia, and called for the US to lift sanctions. In a wide-ranging interview three weeks after his Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied rebels ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad from power after a lightning offensive,

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa says elections in the country could take up to four years, citing a need to rewrite the constitution.

Sharaa, the leader of the new governing authority in Syria, said in a Sunday interview that it could take up to four years to hold elections in the country. In an interview with Saudi television network Al Arabiya,