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Trump Meets With Syria’s President After Announcing Plans to Lift U.S. Sanctions on Country
The meeting came after Trump—who is in the middle of a three-country tour of the Middle East—delivered a speech on Tuesday in ...
Explainer: Syria's economy: The devastating impact of war and sanctions
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria that severed the country from the global ...
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Joel Rayburn commits to helping lift Syria sanctions, boxing in Iranian influence
In a hearing with Senate lawmakers, the White House’s pick to become the State Department’s top diplomat on the Middle East ...
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Nominee for top Middle East post says admin insists on Iranian nuclear dismantlement
Joel Rayburn, nominee to be assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, said Iran ‘does not need and should not ...
Trump Meets Former Militant Who Now Leads Syria
Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the United States and Syria had ...
Former Biden officials offer rare praise for Trump's bold Middle East moves
Former Biden officials react to President Donald Trump's bold Middle East tour, with one admitting they wished they could ...
The Honeymoon Is Ending in Syria
Five months after its liberation from the police state of Bashar al-Assad, Syria sometimes looks like a country in civil war.
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Syria’s central bank chief: US sanctions relief a ‘turning point’
Abdulkader Husrieh discusses how sanctions relief could impact Syria’s reintegration into the global financial system.