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President Trump continues his Mideast visit.
Today, he met with Syria's new interim leader.
This comes after the former Syrian regime collapsed last fall after years of civil war.
NPR's Ea Batraoui reports that earlier,
Trump announced the U.S. will lift decades of sanctions on Syria.
The meeting included Trump, the Saudi crown prince,
and Turkey's president joining over the phone for half an hour with Ahmad al-Shara,
a man who just months ago was on the U.S.-designated list of terrorists with a $10 million bounty on his head for ties with al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group.
But since rebel forces ousted longtime President Bashar Assad from power,
al-Shara has switched from militia leader to statesman in a suit.
And this new Syria says it's ready to build a relationship with the U.S.
Trump says he heard from the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Turkey urging him to lift sanctions order to give Syria a chance at rebuilding and pull it back from Iranian and Russian influence.
U.S. sanctions were mostly hurting average Syrians.