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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Trump says Syria’s leader backs normalization with Israel ‘but they have a lot of work to do’
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A handout picture provided by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows US President Donald Trump (L), Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa (R), Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) posing for a picture in Riyadh on May 14, 2025 (SANA / AFP)
US President Donald Trump says that Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa backed normalization with Israel in the future, after the two leaders met as Washington lifted sanctions on Syria.
“I told him [Sharaa], I hope you’re going to join [the Abraham Accords] once you’re straightened out and he said yes. But they have a lot of work to do,” Trump tells reporters aboard Air Force One.
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