US President Trump has met Syria’s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara.
– “I think I will,” Trump says, when asked by reporters whether he’ll delist Syria from the US’s “state sponsor of terrorism” file.
– After President Bashar al-Assad’s removal, al-Sharaa’s Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham armed group became the de facto governing party and set up an interim government largely composed of officials from the local government it previously ran in rebel-held Idlib province.