From most-wanted terrorist and enemy No. 1, with a US$10 million bounty on his head, to a respected statesman giving a historic speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani, has defied the odds and made a name for himself in only 11 days, after setting out from his mini state in Idlib to bring down the dreaded Assad regime, following a bloody 13-year civil war.

In the first-ever Putschcast episode, Arabic scholar and writer, and former Damascus resident Jaron Sutton, alongside our flabbergasted hosts Oliver and Dave, tries to make sense of what just happened and where this mysterious man will take his war-ravaged homeland.

As always, we will also try to answer the key podcast questions: Was it a putsch? Was it a bloody or velvet one? And, most importantly, was it successful?

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