US President Donald Trump on Monday met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House.
The historic visit marked the first time a Syrian president
has ever visited the White House.
Breaking from typical protocol, reporters and cameras were
kept out of the meeting.
Al-Sharaa is the former leader of al-Qaeda, US-designated
terror group and was once wanted as a terrorist with a $10 million bounty on
his head until December 2024.
He has also served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq.
Al-Sharaa’s visit to the White House comes just weeks after
he attended the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, a move
analysts say is defining his transformation from jihadist to global statesman.
Ahead of his arrival in Washington, the US removed sanctions
it had previously placed on the Syrian leader.
The US also lifted the global terrorist designations
previously placed on al-Sharaa and Anas Khattab, Syria’s interior minister.
Trump once hailed the 43-year-old Syrian leader as a “young,
attractive guy” with a “very strong past” after they briefly met in May during
the US president’s Middle East tour.
Subsequently, Trump ordered the lifting of some of the
crippling US sanctions on Syria.
Al-Sharaa was named as Syria’s president for a transitional
period in January after armed opposition forces initiated a large-scale
offensive against government troops, forcing then-President Bashar al-Assad to
flee to Russia.
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