Damascus courted Donald Trump with a range of incentives, including the potential for a Trump Tower in the Syrian capital, before a meeting between the United States president and his Syrian counterpart.

U.S. President Donald Trump met Wednesday with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years. The meeting, on the sidelines of Trump sitting with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council,

Trump has reportedly agreed to “say hello” to Sharaa, the rebel leader who led an armed uprising in 2024 to topple Bashar al-Assad’s government, forcing him to flee to Russia. The US president will be

US President Donald Trump met on Wednesday Syria's interim President Ahmed Al Sharaa, the first such encounter between the two nations' leaders in 25 years.

Trump was set to meet Wednesday in Saudi Arabia with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the onetime insurgent who last year led the overthrow of former leader Bashar Assad. He said the effort at rapprochement came at the urging of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi de facto ruler, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

In December, a consortium of rebel factions led by the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham unexpectedly toppled the dictator Bashar al-Assad, whose family had ruled Syria for five decades. The new regime in Damascus inherited a country ruined by a 13-year civil war.

A body discovered in Syria is not the remains of kidnapped American journalist Austin Tice, his family confirms.

BBC probe finds coordinated social media campaigns, originating abroad, spreading false information against and in favour of new Syrian administration