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Trump Says Syria Should Be Removed From U.S. Terrorism List
President Trump met Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa on the sidelines of a NATO summit and said the United States should remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. He also praised Sharaa's leadership and discussed possible Syrian cooperation on disarming Hezbollah.
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Trump described Sharaa as "fantastic" and "highly respected," adding that the Syrian leader had unified the country in roughly a year and a half. No Syrian leader had visited the White House in decades before Sharaa. Trump credited Turkey with supporting Sharaa's rise to power since December 2024 and noted that Gulf nations had provided funding to rebuild Syria after the United States lifted economic sanctions fourteen months earlier.
Trump repeated a suggestion that Syria could help disarm Hezbollah in Lebanon. He said, "They could help. We'll find out. I think we're making a lot of progress." A senior Lebanese official told Middle East Eye that a recent visit by a Syrian foreign minister to Lebanon was intended to reassure Lebanese officials and ease concerns about possible military intervention.
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