US President Donald Trump has met Syria’s interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa in Saudi Arabia and said that Washington is exploring normalizing ties with Syria, a day after an announcement that all US sanctions on Syria would be lifted. The US president met Sharaa, a former militant known as Al-Joulani who ...
Hussein Ibrahim* Translated by Areej Fatima Husseini In 1945, Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia’s first king, signed an “oil-for-security” agreement with former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, marking the transfer of leadership of the Western project in the Middle East from Britain to the US. Thus, the mission of protecting ...