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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Trump meeting with Syria’s al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia
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Left to right: US President Donald Trump takes questions outside the West Wing of White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2025. (Jim WATSON / AFP); Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa listens during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 7, 2025. (Stephanie Lecocq/Pool via AP)
US President Donald Trump is meeting with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa ahead of the GCC summit in Riyadh, a day after announcing that the US was lifting sanctions on Syria, a White House official says.
It is the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years.
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