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President Donald Trump volition big Ahmad al-Sharaa for talks, a first-ever sojourn by a Syrian President to the White House, an medication authoritative said connected Saturday (November 1, 2025).
The official, who was not authorised to remark publically astir the yet to beryllium formally announced engagement, said that the gathering is expected to instrumentality spot Nov 10.
Mr. Trump met with al-Sharaa successful Saudi Arabia successful May successful what was the archetypal brushwood betwixt the 2 nations' leaders successful 25 years. Syria continues to conflict to look from decades of planetary isolation.
The meeting, connected the sidelines of Trump's get-together with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, was seen arsenic a large crook of events for a Syria that is inactive adjusting to beingness aft the implicit 50-year, iron-gripped regularisation of the Assad family.
Al-Sharaa erstwhile had a $10 cardinal U.S. bounty connected his head.
Under the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Golani, al-Sharaa had ties to al-Qaida and joined insurgents battling U.S. forces successful Iraq earlier entering the Syrian war. He was adjacent imprisoned by U.S. troops determination for respective years.
Al-Sharaa is expected during his sojourn to motion an statement connected joining the U.S.-led conjugation against ISIS, the authoritative said.
Al-Sharaa successful the May gathering became the archetypal Syrian person to conscionable an American President since Hafez Assad met Bill Clinton successful Geneva successful 2000.
The sojourn comes arsenic Mr. Trump is urging Middle East allies to prehend the infinitesimal to physique a durable bid successful the volatile portion aft Israel and Hamas earlier this period began implementing a ceasefire and hostage deal. That statement aims to bring astir a imperishable extremity to the brutal two-year warfare successful Gaza.
The fragile ceasefire and hostage woody continues to hold, but the concern remains precarious.
Israeli strikes successful Gaza earlier this week killed 104 people, including dozens of women and children, the enclave's wellness authorities said.
The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began connected Oct 10, marked the astir superior situation to the tenuous truce to date.
The strikes came Tuesday nighttime aft Israel accused Hamas of sidesplitting a worker and staging the find of a deceased hostage.
News of the planned gathering betwixt Mr. Trump and Mr. al-Sharaa was archetypal reported by Axios.
