On Monday, president Donald Trump met with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House, marking the first visit by a Syrian head of state since the fall of the Assad government. Al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda commander who seized power in Damascus with his faction Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) last December, arrived as Washington’s newest …
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