A man holds a Syrian flag on his back across the street from the White House after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with US President Donald Trump at White House in Washington, DC on November 10, 2025. Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa met US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks, just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, is the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since the country's 1946 independence.