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Rubio Meets Syria's Leader in New York as the Country's Isolation Eases Further
- On September 22, 2025, in New York during the 80th United Nations General Assembly, Syrian President Ahmad Hussein al-Sharaa held a meeting with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
- This meeting followed al-Sharaa's December 2024 ouster of Bashar al-Assad, which ended nearly 14 years of civil war and came amid eased US sanctions announced earlier in 2025.
- They discussed sanctions relief, ongoing counterterrorism efforts, the importance of Israel-Syria relations, and Syria's potential security negotiations with the US and Israel.
- Al-Sharaa praised Trump’s decision to lift many sanctions as "quick, courageous and historic," and emphasized Syria "deserves a new opportunity."
- The meeting marked Syria’s first high-level UN participation in 60 years and suggested Syria’s gradual reentry into regional diplomacy, though some sanctions remain and normalization talks continue.
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Rubio meets Syria's leader in New York as the country's isolation eases further
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa met Monday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York, expanding relations with the West and further easing his country’s isolation as he becomes Syria’s first leader to take part in a U.N. high-level meeting in nearly 60 years.
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Anadolu AjansıSyrian President al-Sharaa meets with US Secretary of State Rubio in New York
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