President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, one day after announcing the U.S. would drop sanctions against Syria.
Trump said after meeting Sharaa that he would explore “normalizing” relations with Damascus, while Syria would explore joining the Abraham Accords to normalize relations with Israel.
Wednesday’s half-hour, closed-door meeting marked the first time the leaders of the United States and Syria have spoken face-to-face in 25 years, the last example being when President Bill Clinton met with dictator Hafez al-Assad in Geneva. It was a major ice-breaking moment for Sharaa, who is desperate to lift crippling Western sanctions that were imposed against the regime he overthrew in December 2024.
The meeting appeared to be everything Sharaa could have hoped for. After it was over, Trump spoke highly of the Syrian leader to reporters aboard Air Force One.
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