Dhaka, Sept. 24 -- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa appeared to find a moment for some social-media scrolling amid the speeches and diplomacy at the United Nations General Assembly.

A video circulating online shows al-Sharaa looking down at his smartphone and apparently flicking through Instagram Reels while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses world leaders from the UN podium in New York.

The footage quickly spread across social media, becoming one of the lighter moments from a General Assembly dominated by wars, geopolitical tensions and warnings over artificial intelligence.

Several reports, citing Kurdistan24, said al-Sharaa was scrolling through and sharing Reels during Erdogan's address.

The footage itself, however, ...