Syrian government leaders visit the White House, Trump speaks out.

On the 10th, President Trump met with Syrian regime leader Ahmed Shala at the White House. According to US media reports, after the meeting, Trump said that the US will take measures to help Syria "succeed" because the country is "part of the Middle East." The Syrian regime's foreign ministry issued a statement saying that the meeting was "friendly and constructive." According to Russian news agency Sputnik, before Shala's meeting with Trump in Washington, the US lifted sanctions against him. The US Treasury Department website also shows that the head of the Syrian regime's interior ministry, Hatib, has also been removed from the US sanction list.