“I will order the lifting of sanctions against Syria” to give the country ‘a chance for peace,’ US President Donald Trump said in the Saudi capital Riyadh, according to international media reports. The sanctions were imposed when dictator Bashar al-Assad ruled Syria.
EU has already eased punitive measures
This could make a wish of the current Syrian interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, come true. Since the fall of the Assad regime at the end of 2024, he has been campaigning for all sanctions against Syria to be lifted. The European Union had already eased initial economic sanctions.
Trump and al-Sharaa met
The US president and the Syrian interim president met in Riyadh. The brief conversation was intended to mark the beginning of a normalization of relations between the US and Syria, Trump said afterwards. He called on al-Sharaa to recognize Israel, according to a statement from the White House in Washington, Trump’s seat of government.
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