{"id":6826,"date":"2025-05-18T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2025-05-18T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T03:05:09","slug":"trump-meets-with-syrias-interim-president-a-first-between-the-nations-leaders-in-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2025\/05\/18\/trump-meets-with-syrias-interim-president-a-first-between-the-nations-leaders-in-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump meets with Syria\u2019s interim president, a first between the nations\u2019 leaders in 25 years\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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This article talks about the recent, and rather historical, meeting between President Trump and Syria\u2019s current interim president Al Sharaa. What\u2019s worth noting is that Sharaa had ties to Al Qaeda through his own rebel off-shoot faction up until 2016. Their meeting was pretty prosperous, as Trump complimented Al Sharaa greatly, and even spoke about Damascus entering the Abraham Accords. This hasn\u2019t officially happened yet, but it is clear Syria is gearing itself up for a larger, less conflict-ridden, scene in the global arena as well as with the global hegemon. Another advancement from their meeting was an end to sanctions in Syria, which came as a disappointment to Israel especially with Trump’s discontent with their hawkish leader. The most interesting thing that this article proves is Syria\u2019s role as a power center in the Middle East. As a shatterbelt region with multiple, four exactly, great powers, that being Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran, they all seek some leverage in the war-torn state for greater regional hegemony. We can see this with Turkey, as they previously backed Syrian rebel groups such as HTS and are looking to secure their leverage in the country. Iran was especially at a loss of leverage with Assad\u2019s ousting in December, given that he led a pseudo-Shia Islamist government which is now Sunni. Saudi Arabia comes into play as they as well as Turkey helped orchestrate this meeting between Trump and Syria. Riyadh\u2019s stature as an economic power in the region gives it opportunities to advance itself, as it has been trying diplomatically. More on the coup performed by Al Sharaa\u2019s HTS, it truly has led to multiple power shifts, even this historical one of the US ending sanctions in Syria and beginning less conflict-ridden relations, allowing Syria to enter trade deals and the global market potentially. From a theoretical view. this shift in relations between Damascus and Washington sort of counters constructivism, which posits that a state will interact with another state according to perceptions and identities formed from differing, or shared, histories, cultures, values, etc. This isn\u2019t the case here, as we see the United States welcoming future Syrian relations with open arms. One might argue that it is because Syria is being run very differently under Al Sharaa and has \u201cfixed themselves up,\u201d but this interim government is still giving way to a Sunni Islamist group with coalitions related to Al Qaeda still. Opportunities of trade and economic benefits will supersede this, as per a more realist analysis of the situation.\u00a0
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Link to article: \u00a0Trump meets with Syria\u2019s interim president, a first between the nations\u2019 leaders in 25 years\u00a0 This article talks about the recent, and rather historical, meeting between President Trump and Syria\u2019s current interim president Al Sharaa. What\u2019s worth noting is that Sharaa had ties to Al Qaeda through his own rebel off-shoot faction up until 2016. Their meeting… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}