From the back door of the White House, Donald Trump welcomed the President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sara, late in the afternoon.
It is the first visit by a Syrian president to Washington since the country's independence in 1946 and recognition for the former jihadist in a low-key visit away from the cameras.
Journalists were not invited to the Oval Office at the beginning of the meeting with the US president, as is generally the case during official visits.
The meeting between the two men comes six months after their first 4-4 meeting in Saudi Arabia, where Trump announced plans to lift sanctions, and just days after the U.S. said the former al Qaeda commander was no longer designated an "international terrorist."
Source: Radio RIK/APE
PAF/AKO
