The president is set to meet the leaders of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE before traveling to Doha, Qatar, for the second leg of his trip.

U.S. President Donald Trump was set to meet Syria's president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday following a surprise announcement that the United States would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government despite lingering concerns about its leaders' former ties to Al Qaeda.

President Trump met with Syrian interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa and urged him to expel 'Palestinian terrorists' from the country and sign on to the historic Abraham Accords.

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.

President Trump, speaking in Saudi Arabia, said he will order the end of sanctions against Syria to normalize relations with its new government.

President Donald Trump would plainly like America to be more like the Gulf states he’s touring on the first big foreign trip of his new term.

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Donald Trump is expected to meet Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa before travelling to Qatar as part of his three-stop tour of the Middle East