Sharaa denied that he wanted to turn Syria into a version of Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate, however, rejects Blinken's statements and says that Afghanistan is not currently isolated from the world and that they have relations with other countries.
Rebuilding Syria will be a colossal task following a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people
Assad's prime minister, Mohammed Jalali, on Monday agreed to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government
Assad's fall as president removed a bastion from which Iran and Russia exercised influence across the Arab world
A Kremlin source said Russia favoured a political solution to the crisis in Syria, where Moscow supported Assad during the long civil war
Syrian rebels said Damascus was "now free of Assad," Reuters reported.
Rebels and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said insurgents had captured villages including Maar Shahur a few miles north of the city.
Iran's Abbas Araqchi told Russia's Sergei Lavrov in a phone call that the attacks were part of an Israeli-U.S. plan to destabilise the region
They made quick progress and by late Friday, an operations room representing the offensive said rebels were sweeping through various neighbourhoods of the city.