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From al-Qaeda to Syria's presidency, the rise of Ahmad al-Sharaa
He's a former al-Qaeda member, but on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage with President ...
Trump’s embrace of Syria and its jihadist-turned-president could shake up the Middle East
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had tea with a former jihadist who until recently had a $10 million US bounty on his ...
Former Biden officials offer rare praise for Trump's bold Middle East moves
Former Biden officials react to President Donald Trump's bold Middle East tour, with one admitting they wished they could ...
Trump Meets With Syria’s President After Announcing Plans to Lift U.S. Sanctions on Country
The meeting came after Trump—who is in the middle of a three-country tour of the Middle East—delivered a speech on Tuesday in ...
Sectarian violence on Syria’s coast undermines new government
It would take four full days for the government to restore a semblance of order on the coast. In the meantime, the death toll ...
Watching Trump from afar, Israel fears being left out of a new Middle East it helped create
For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington.
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Syria-Israel talks reportedly intensify as Trump asks Sharaa to normalize: What to know
Following President Donald Trump’s call for Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to join the Abraham Accords, multiple contacts ...
The Honeymoon Is Ending in Syria
Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.