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Trump meets with the Syrian leader in Saudi Arabia

The leader of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) group of Syria, which led a slight rebel-offensive Damascus from the government control, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, speaks a lot on the landmark of the capital on December 8, 2024.

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The US President Donald Trump met with the Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia, before driving to Qatar on Wednesday, the White House announced the abolition of the US sanctions against the country characterized by the war one day after Washington.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman supervised the meeting while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan connected by phone.

“President Trump thanked President Erdogan and the Crown Prince for her friendship and said President Al-Sharaa that he had an enormous opportunity to do something historical in his country,” said an advertisement from the White House.

Trump “encouraged President Al-Sharaa to do a great job for the Syrian people,” said the advertisement and contained a list of measures that US President Al-Sharaa asked. This includes signing Abraham Agreement with Israel, all foreign terrorists who are supposed to leave Syria, deporting Palestinian terrorists and helping the United States to prevent the resurrection of the Islamic state group and to take responsibility for the latter's prison in northeastern Syria.

Syria has been expelled from the US government to the state sponsor of terrorism since 1979. The US sanctions were imposed again in 2004 and 2011 after the regime of the then President Bashar Assad had started a brutal approach to government uprising against the government government. In the approximately 14 years since then, the country was destroyed by civil war, sectarian violence and brutal terrorists

The fall of the Assad regime during a shock offensive by anti-assadic militia groups in December last year amazed the global community and led to a new beginning for the destroyed country. Syria's new President Ahmed al-Sharaa-a former member of Al-Qaida, which is currently reformed by the country's transitional government.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey played a key role in convincing Trump, increasing sanctions in Syria and meeting al-Sharaa, officers from the White House said. In recent years, a larger number of Arab and Muslim countries has called for the efforts to reintegrate Syria into the Arabic folds before Assad was displaced.

“I will order the attitude of sanctions against Syria to give them a chance of size,” Trump said on Tuesday when he first appeared in the Middle East, a full auditorium in the US Saudi Investition Forum in Riad.

“In Syria, which has experienced so much misery and death, there is a new government that hopefully will succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace. We want to see that,” said the American president about the applause of the audience.

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