Khaberni - Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara stated that his previous connections with Al-Qaeda were not discussed during his talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House.
Al-Shara said in an interview with "Fox News" after the meeting: "I believe that this issue has remained in the past. We did not discuss it," pointing out that the conversations focused on "the possibility of investing in Syria's future so it is no longer considered a threat to security."
In response to a question about whether he regrets the September 11, 2001 attacks carried out by Al-Qaeda militants in the United States, al-Shara answered that he has no connection to them and that he "mourns every victim."
This meeting follows Trump’s signing on July 1 of a decree lifting unilateral sanctions imposed on Syria, which excludes former president Bashar al-Assad and persons associated with him.
Trump had talks with al-Shara in Riyadh on May 14, representing the first meeting between leaders of the two countries in 25 years, announcing then that his country would begin lifting sanctions that had been imposed on Damascus for decades.
