Syria, Trump and Saudi Arabia
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The meeting came days after President Trump announced he would end sanctions against Syria and met with the country’s president, a former jihadist.
Al-Sharaa is the first Syrian leader to meet an American president since Hafez Assad met Bill Clinton in Geneva in 2000. Syrians cheered the announcement by Trump that the U.S. will move to lift sanctions on the beleaguered Middle Eastern nation.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his head.
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U.S. to remove 'brutal and crippling' sanctions on SyriaSyrians have endured "brutal and crippling" sanctions over the past 14 years, and it's time to end them, President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.