Trump meets Syria’s ‘attractive, tough’ president after lifting US sanctions

Meeting with Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia seen as step towards recognition of new Syrian authority’s legitimacyUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump has met Syria’s president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia and said Washington is exploring normalising ties with Damascus, a day after an announcement that all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted.The US president met Sharaa, a former militant who fought against US forces in Iraq and had a $10m US bounty on his head until December 2024, for about half an hour before a conference of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). That meeting is part of Trump’s four-day visit to the Middle East, where he is expected to court Gulf allies for investments in the US. Trump later travelled to Doha, where he met the Qatari leader, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. Continue reading...

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