President Donald Trump is to meet with the new Syrian leader, a onetime insurgent, before wrapping up his visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and heading to Qatar, the second leg of his three-nation Middle East tour this week.

Coinciding with Trump’s visit, U.S. billionaires, including Elon Musk, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Palantir’s Alex Karp and BlackRock’s Larry Fink attended the U.S.-Saudi Investm

President Trump met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and attended a US-Saudi investment forum along with Elon Musk and other top CEOs.

The American leader dedicated much of his speech to praising the Saudi kingdom, with which he has enjoyed warm relations for years. "Trump and MBS? It's a bromance for the ages," one summit attendee told CNBC,

U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, the first such encounter between the two nations’ leaders in 25 years. The meeting, on the sidelines of Trump's get-together with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council,

During comments at the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, President Trump urged Gulf leaders to join the U.S. in “fully and totally enforcing” recent sanctions imposed on Iran.

President Donald J. Trump spoke at the Saudi investment forum on May 13, 2025, where he said he may consider a nuclear deal with Iran.