Syria, Lift and Trump
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The president's decision on sanctions does not mean he's chosen to side with self-described "restraint" advocates over foreign policy hawks in Washington.
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 met.
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When the leader of Syria shook hands with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was a striking moment for a man who was an al-Qaida fighter in Iraq and was detained by the American military.
When President Donald Trump announced in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday that he would lift all sanctions on Syria, the decision, which will boost a country devastated by 13 years of war, took many in the region by surprise.
But there’s one notable exception that’s emerged in the past 24 hours: Trump’s new Syria policy.
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Despite his Islamist background, al-Sharaa has shown more pragmatic than ideological since the fall of President Bashar al-Assad