{"id":34944,"date":"2025-11-09T13:20:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=34944"},"modified":"2025-11-09T13:20:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:35:27","slug":"syrian-president-arrives-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/syrian-president-arrives-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian president arrives in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived in the United States on Saturday for a landmark official visit, his country’s state news agency reported, a day after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist.<\/p>\n

Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, is due to meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.<\/p>\n

The interim leader met Trump for the first time in Riyadh during the US president’s regional tour in May.<\/p>\n

US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said earlier this month that Sharaa would “hopefully” sign an agreement to join the international US-led alliance against the Islamic State (IS).<\/p>\n

The United States plans to establish a military base near Damascus “to coordinate humanitarian aid and observe developments between Syria and Israel”, a diplomatic source in Syria told AFP.<\/p>\n

The State Department’s decision Friday to remove Sharaa from the blacklist was widely expected.<\/p>\n

State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Sharaa’s government had been meeting US demands including on working to find missing Americans and on eliminating any remaining chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Washington led a vote by the Security Council to remove UN sanctions against him.<\/p>\n

Formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda, Sharaa’s group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), was delisted as a terrorist group by Washington as recently as July.<\/p>\n

Since taking power, Syria’s new leaders have sought to break from their violent past and present a moderate image more tolerable to ordinary Syrians and foreign powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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