{"id":26495,"date":"2025-06-11T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/?p=26495"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:42:55","slug":"u-s-officials-fear-syrian-presidents-life-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/u-s-officials-fear-syrian-presidents-life-is-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Officials Fear Syrian President\u2019s Life Is at Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Barrack, President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy to Syria, warned in an interview with <em>Al-Monitor<\/em> published Tuesday that Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new Syrian president, could become a target for assassination by extremist militias increasingly opposed to the new regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to coordinate a security system around al-Sharaa,\u201d said Barrack, cautioning against the threat posed by radical foreign factions that once fought alongside him against Assad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Syrian president is a brilliant man\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nBarrack, who until recently served as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and now leads efforts to ease sanctions on Syria, described al-Sharaa as \u201cbrilliant and self-assured.\u201d He noted that the Syrian president envisions a moderate Muslim society that safeguards the rights of minorities, including Alawites, Druze, and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Following a meeting between Trump and al-Sharaa in Riyadh last month, the U.S. announced the complete removal of sanctions on Syria \u2014 a dramatic shift from Washington\u2019s long-standing policy. \u201cThat was classic Trump \u2014 ripped the band-aid off,\u201d said Barrack.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there are no formal American conditions for lifting the sanctions, but there are \u201cexpectations.\u201d These include combating Palestinian terror organizations, advancing toward joining the Abraham Accords, and fighting ISIS.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26498\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26498\" style=\"width: 822px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26498 \" src=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-83.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"822\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-83.webp 624w, https:\/\/reganews.co.il\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-83-300x184.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting between al-Sharaa and Trump | Photo: White House Press Office<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Barrack summed up the administration\u2019s stance on Syria by saying, \u201cWe\u2019re not in the business of nation-building. 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We\u2019re flooding the region with hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syria returns to the international stage<\/strong><br \/>\nFollowing the fall of Bashar al-Assad\u2019s regime late last year, the world is once again opening its doors to Syria, offering new opportunities for the country.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the governor of Syria\u2019s central bank, Abdulkader Husrieh, announced in an interview with the <em>Financial Times<\/em> that Syria will reconnect to the international SWIFT money transfer system within a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Dubravka \u0160uica, the EU Commissioner for the Mediterranean, said that \u201cSyria stands at a turning point,\u201d with real potential for a transition to peace and stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States fears an assassination attempt against Syria\u2019s new president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, due to his efforts to promote inclusive governance and openness toward the West, according to President Trump\u2019s special envoy to Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":26497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2276,8,6,65],"tags":[3007,6022,6695,3977,6694,2030,5012,6696,2688,2396],"class_list":["post-26495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-people","category-politics","category-security","category-world","tag-abraham-accords","tag-ahmed-al-sharaa","tag-assad-regime","tag-middle-east-diplomacy","tag-swift-system","tag-syria","tag-syrian-civil-war","tag-tom-barrack","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.7 (Yoast SEO v24.7) - 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