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In this photo released by Syrian Presidency press office, President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, at the White House in Washington, on November 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday (November…

Democracy Dies in Darkness Ahmed al-Sharaa, the rebel leader who became Syria’s president after ousting Bashar al-Assad, has walked an improbable path from al-Qaeda to the West Wing. Updated November 10, 2025 Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa greets Syrians gathered outside the White House as he departs after a meeting with…

Jerusalem Post / World News Sharaa’s landmark visit to Washington: Trump vows to support Syria's recovery from war Speaking to reporters, Trump praised Sharaa as a "strong leader" and voiced confidence in him. "We’ll do everything we can to make Syria successful," he said. A Syrian flag is held aloft…

State of the Union: President Donald Trump attempts to bring Syria in from the cold. The post Trump Welcomes Syria’s Al-Sharaa to Washington appeared first on The American Conservative...Read More

(Reuters) -Syria recently signed a political cooperation declaration with the Global Coalition to Defeat Islamic State, the Syrian information minister said in a post on X post on Monday. "The agreement is political and until now contains no military components," he said. (Reporting by Timour Azhari; Editing by Chris Reese)…

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TRIPOLI (Reuters) -Hannibal Gaddafi, youngest son of Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi, was released on Monday after almost a decade of detention without trial in Lebanon over the disappearance of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, Lebanon's National News Agency said. Gaddafi was abducted in 2015 by militants in Syria, where he…

"There are now absolutely no grounds for asylum in Germany, and therefore we can begin deportations." Germany is moving to deport Syrian migrants back to their own country now that the civil war in that Middle Eastern nation is over. Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that there's no longer any reason…

Less than a year after his lightning power grab, Syria’s president is capping his transformation from jihadist to global statesman in a historic visit to the White House that says as much about the young leader as it does his push for his country’s diplomatic reinvention. Ahmad al-Sharaa’s meeting on…

President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday, welcoming the once-pariah state into a US-led global coalition to fight the Islamic State group. It's the first visit to the White House by a Syrian head of state since the Middle Eastern country gained…