{"id":11833,"date":"2025-05-15T01:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11833"},"modified":"2025-05-15T01:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:53:13","slug":"donald-trump-and-ahmed-al-sharaa-met-in-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/donald-trump-and-ahmed-al-sharaa-met-in-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump and Ahmed al-Sharaa met in Riyadh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11834\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/tramp-raz0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Former US President Donald Trump and Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, May 14.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to Al-Arabiya, the meeting lasted about half an hour.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sources say that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also participated in the meeting online and gave a speech.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In the meeting, Erdogan called the lifting of US sanctions against Syria a &#8220;historic step&#8221; and emphasized that Ankara supports Syria while not posing a threat to others.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A day earlier, during his visit to Saudi Arabia, Trump also met with the country&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and signed a deal worth $142 billion with him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After Saudi Arabia, Trump traveled to Qatar and was given a special welcome by the Emir of Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US President Donald Trump and Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday, May 14. According to Al-Arabiya, the meeting lasted about half an hour. Sources say that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also participated in the meeting online and gave a speech. In the meeting, Erdogan called the lifting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11835,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11833\/revisions\/11835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}