Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa is to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa looks on as he attends the “Aleppo, Key to Victory” celebration marking Syria’s liberation in May (REUTERS/File) Sharaa, whose rebel…
During much of the first half of this year, things were looking up for Ahmed al-Sharaa. Syria’s new president was basking in Donald Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on his country. After more than a decade of civil war, Damascus and other cities had begun to hum again. Investors from the Gulf and Turkey piled…
The UK has fully re-established relations with Syria 14 years after severing ties with the former government of Bashar al-Assad, MEE reported. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was photographed shaking hands with the country’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus. “The UK is re-establishing diplomatic relations because it is in our interests to support the new…