Al-Sharaa, whose insurgent forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late final 12 months, is because of meet Mr. Trump on the White Home on Monday.
It’s the primary such go to by a Syrian president because the nation’s independence in 1946, in keeping with analysts. Al-Sharaa addressed the United Nations Common Meeting in New York Metropolis in September.
The interim chief met Mr. Trump for the primary time in Riyadh throughout Mr. Trump’s Center East tour in Could.
U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack stated earlier this month that al-Sharaa would “hopefully” signal an settlement to affix the worldwide U.S.-led alliance towards the Islamic State.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the United Nations Common Meeting on the U.N. headquarters in New York Metropolis on Sept. 24, 2025.
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The State Division’s determination Friday to delist al-Sharaa as world terrorist was broadly anticipated.
State Division spokesman Tommy Pigott stated in an announcement al-Sharaa’s authorities had been assembly U.S. calls for together with on working to search out lacking Individuals and on eliminating any remaining chemical weapons.
“These actions are being taken in recognition of the progress demonstrated by the Syrian leadership after the departure of Bashar al-Assad and more than 50 years of repression under the Assad regime,” Pigott stated.
The spokesman added that the U.S. delisting would promote “regional security and stability as well as an inclusive, Syrian-led and Syrian-owned political process.”
Al-Sharaa joined al Qaeda about 20 years in the past, and was arrested in Iraq in 2005. He spent six years in American and Iraqi prisons earlier than his launch in 2011. He then led an affiliate of al Qaeda in Syria, and was designated as a terrorist by the U.S. in 2013. In 2016, he renounced his allegiance to al Qaeda.
In November 2024, al-Sharaa led opposition forces in a surprising offensive that toppled the Assad regime.
In an interview with “60 Minutes” final month in Syria, al-Sharaa stated that “there are entire generations” of Syrians “that have suffered tremendous psychological trauma” underneath the Assad regime.
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