{"id":14065,"date":"2025-05-14T17:11:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2025-05-14T17:12:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T11:12:16","slug":"trump-meets-syrian-president-urges-him-to-establish-ties-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/?p=14065","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets Syrian president, urges him to establish ties with Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trumpmet with Syria&#8217;s president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, after a surprise U.S. announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government.<br \/>\nTrump met Syria&#8217;s Ahmed al-Sharaa, who once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and swept to power at the head of a group that Washington has called a terrorist organisation, before a summit between the United States and Gulf Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p>Photos posted on Saudi state television showed them shaking hands in the presence of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MbS.<br \/>\nTurkish President Tayyip Erdogan joined Trump and MbS virtually in the meeting, Turkey&#8217;s Anadolu News Agency reported.<br \/>\nTrump urged Sharaa to join the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which normalised relations with Israel under the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords in 2020, the White House press secretary posted on X.<br \/>\nThe United States also hopes Saudi Arabia will join the Abraham Accords, but discussions came to a halt after the Gaza war erupted and the kingdom insists there can be no normalisation without Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>RIYADH, May 14 (Reuters) &#8211;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trumpmet with Syria&#8217;s president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, after a surprise U.S. announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government. Trump met Syria&#8217;s Ahmed al-Sharaa, who once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and swept to power at the head of a group that Washington has called a terrorist organisation, before a summit between the United States and Gulf Arab countries. Photos posted on Saudi state television showed them shaking hands in the presence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14068,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions\/14068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/USBnews24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}