{"id":32927,"date":"2025-11-11T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32927"},"modified":"2025-11-11T22:05:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T22:05:59","slug":"how-will-the-syrian-presidents-visit-to-the-white-house-impact-the-region-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=32927","title":{"rendered":"How will the Syrian president\u2019s visit to the White House impact the region? | Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>United States President Donald Trump held historic talks with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the United States was offering a $10m reward for the arrest of the commander of a Syrian armed group, previously linked to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>Yet on Monday, President Donald Trump hosted him at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>As Syria\u2019s leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa has positioned his country as a regional player \u2013 formally joining the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS).<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also suggested he wants al-Sharaa to join the Abraham Accords.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Israeli military is carrying out air strikes on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>So, how might the new US-Syria relationship reshape power dynamics in the Middle East?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Haid Haid \u2014 Senior non-resident fellow at Arab Reform Initiative<\/p>\n<p>Robert Ford \u2014 Former US ambassador to Syria<\/p>\n<p>Rob Geist Pinfold \u2014 Lecturer in International Security at King\u2019s College London<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 11 Nov 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">11 Nov 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States President Donald Trump held historic talks with his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa on Monday. A year ago, the United States was offering a $10m reward for the arrest of the commander of a Syrian armed group, previously linked to al-Qaeda. Yet on Monday, President Donald Trump hosted him at the White House. As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[671,265,8723,8877,10691,4440,1774,2168],"class_list":{"0":"post-32927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-house","9":"tag-impact","10":"tag-jazeera","11":"tag-presidents","12":"tag-region","13":"tag-syrian","14":"tag-visit","15":"tag-white"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}