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In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with President Donald Trump, centre, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. At right is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.(Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Live updates: Trump’s meeting with Syria’s new president could mark a turning point for the Mideast

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with President Donald Trump, centre, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. At right is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.(Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Live updates: Trump’s meeting with Syria’s new president could mark a turning point for the Mideast

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, left, shakes hands with President Donald Trump, centre, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. At right is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.(Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

Live updates: Trump’s meeting with Syria’s new president could mark a turning point for the Mideast

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Women comfort a relative of Ibrahim al-Hamad, who was killed by a Turkish-backed militia, during the funeral of four Syrian Democratic Forces fighters in northeastern the village of Daoudiya, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Kurds in the new Syria want to preserve the cultural rights they gained in years of war

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

People look at photos of people reported to be missing, by members of ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad's army or a pro-government militia, as others sit to smoke and drink tea at the Marjeh square in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Clashes between Islamists now in power in Syria and Assad’s supporters kill 6 fighters

By Sally Abou Aljoud and Omar Albam and Ghaith Alsayed - Associated Press

Syrian opposition fighters man a checkpoint in Damascus, Syria, Monday Dec. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Here’s how the U.S. is countering the Islamic State group during Syria’s upheaval

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

People attend a rally celebrating the fall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government, at central Syntagma square, in Athens, Greece, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Global reaction to Assad’s sudden ouster from Syria ranges from jubilation to alarm

Associated Press

Dawud Assad, 92, stands in front of Palestinian decor in his home in Monroe Township, N.J., on May 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Noreen Nasir)

Palestinians recount painful history with war in Gaza as a reminder

By Noreen Nasir - Associated Press

In this photo released on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, by Suwayda24, people stage a protest as they wave the Druze flags in the southern city of Sweida, Syria. Anti-government protests have rocked south Syria for the past week. Demonstrators initially took to the streets over surging inflation but are now calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad, echoing the beginnings of a 2011 uprising that sparked Syria's brutal civil war. (Suwayda24 via AP)

Syria protests spurred by economic misery stir memories of the 2011 anti-government uprising

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

This photo released Dec. 4, 2018, by the al-Qaeda-affiliated Ibaa News Agency, shows al-Qaeda-linked fighters driving their vehicles during a military drill in northern Syria. (Ibaa News Agency, via AP) ** FILE **

Al Qaeda’s advance in northern Syria threatens fragile truce

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad continues to be a thorn in U.S.-Russia talks for peace in the Middle East as the U.S. backs Mr. Assad while Russia supports nearby Iran against him. (Associated Press)

L. TODD WOOD: Russian media mentions Assad may step down

By L. Todd Wood

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall event Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, in Rochester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) ** FILE **

Donald Trump: I bet Russia will get ‘bogged down again’ in the Middle East

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Maricopa County Sheriff's Cold Case Posse Lead Investigator Mike Zullo announces Tuesday, July 17, 2012, in Phoenix that President Obama's birth certificate, as presented by the White House in April 2011, is a forgery based on an investigation by the Sheriff's office. (AP Photo/Matt York)

L. TODD WOOD: Can I see that birth certificate again, please?

By L. Todd Wood