Trump to raise penalties in Syria and meet the new president
President Trump declared Tuesday that he would raise US sanctions on Syria, throwing an anchor of economic life to a country devastated for almost 14 years of civil war and decades of dictatorship under the Assad family.Trump should have met for the first time with the new president of Syria, Ahmed Al-Shara, Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, where the American leader is making the first great state visit of his second term. Al-Shara led the rebel alliance that expelled President Bashar al-Assad in Syria in December.The President of the United States made the announcement surprisingly to end the penalties while turned to a commercial forum in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where the crowd broke out in applause and gave him a standing ovation.The decision represents a change of sea for Syria, breaking ...