Sharaa Tells Trump Remaining Sanctions Must Be Lifted to Revive Syria’s Economy
SANA
June 2, 2026
The call also addressed regional security conditions and the challenges posed by ongoing tensions, SANA writes.
The call also addressed regional security conditions and the challenges posed by ongoing tensions, SANA writes.
Trump added in a post on Truth Social that the move comes “as part of strengthening our strategic cooperation with the governments of Syria and Iraq, and the continued growth of our relationship with them.”
Shibani said that months of intensive national, intelligence, and technical operations had led specialized Syrian teams to uncover munitions, precursor chemicals, and equipment used for mixing and storage.
For Daraj, Syria increasingly resembles what international relations literature calls a “booty state”—a state that, due to collapse or brittle transition, becomes an open arena for external powers to divide influence and carve out functional domains.
This pivot does not elevate Damascus to the level of a full U.S. partner, but it does create a practical opening for the new Syrian government to demonstrate its ability to manage sensitive portfolios, Malek Al-Hafez writes in Syria TV.
Turkey stressed during the meetings the importance of completing the integration of the SDF into the Syrian army, Syria TV reports.
The event was co-organized by the Permanent Missions of Syria, Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland to the OPCW, in partnership with the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).
These repeated movements—raids on homes, sweeps of farms and workplaces, and intermittent shelling—have become a defining pattern of Israeli military activity in rural Quneitra.
Barnieh attended at the invitation of France, which currently holds the G7 presidency, Al-Thawra writes;
The European Union first imposed sanctions on the former Syrian regime in 2011, following its violent crackdown on civilian protests.
Europe no longer views Syria merely as a humanitarian file defined by images of destruction and waves of refugees, as it did during the early years of the war, al-Thawra writes.
Beyond military expansion, analysts warn that Israel may be attempting to fracture the region’s social fabric.
Shibani categorically denied the existence of any agreement with Germany or other European states for the immediate return of hundreds of thousands of Syrians, according to Ultra Syria.
Mohammed Bateesh, head of the UN Cooperation Section, stressed the importance of constructive engagement with the international community.
Together, the forum and the bilateral meeting between al-Shibani and Šuica signal a shift in the nature of EU–Syria relations, al-Ikhbariya writes.
Cairo and Beirut’s moves toward Damascus raise a broader question: Are we witnessing an organized Arab return to Syria, or separate bilateral understandings driven by each country’s necessities?
Damascus must treat Egyptian engagement as a strategic opportunity, not merely a diplomatic stop, Syria TV writes.
The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership rests on three interrelated pillars that the Syrian leadership must fully recognize: the political and security dimension, the economic and financial dimension, and the social, cultural, and humanitarian dimension.
One military source told Maariv that Israel does not trust the Syrian leadership and views the situation as highly sensitive.
Months before Bashar al-Assad fled Syria, Russian officials in Damascus were pressing his government to immediately settle a $37 million bill for “protecting” oil facilities, according to an internal document leaked to Siraj.