There is a new government that, hopefully, will succeed,' stated the US president, who met with his Syrian counterpart, Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former jihadist who had fought Americans in Iraq, on Wednesday morning in Riyadh.

Then-President Joe Biden left the decision to Trump, whose administration has yet to formally recognize the new Syrian government. Sanctions imposed on Damascus under Assad also remain in place ...

Officials of the new government led by interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa ... fighters swept through the country in triumph and al-Assad fled to Moscow. Syria’s border authority called the ...