Trump to remove US sanctions on Syria
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CNN on MSNTrump’s embrace of Syria and its jihadist-turned-president could shake up the Middle EastUS President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his head.
Donald Trump praises ‘young, attractive’ ex-terrorist Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa - President says former al-Qaeda terrorist is ‘pretty amazing’ after historic handshake
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The new Syrian president courted the White House with multiple offers, including a proposal to build a Trump Tower in his country’s capital, in an effort to diffuse tensions between the U.S. and Damascus.
Sharaa, earlier known as Abu Mohammed al Joulani, had been imprisoned at Abu Ghraib as a member of the Iraqi ISIS faction. Trump describes
Syrian Finance Minister Yisr Barnieh made a call to global investors on Wednesday to come do business with Syria after U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement that he would lift all of Washington's sanctions on the country.
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"He's got the potential - he's a real leader," Trump said on Air Force One after meeting Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
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Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war. Sectarian clashes have turned into street battles with rockets and mortars.
United States President Donald Trump has announced that Washington is exploring the normalisation of ties with Damascus, following a historic meeting with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa – the first such encounter in over two decades.