Brian Mast, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, met Asaad Al Shibani, Syria’s Foreign Minister, and later President Ahmad Al Shara for talks in Washington. Getty Images via AFP

Syria lobbies reluctant US congressman to lift sanctions

President Ahmad Al Shara meets influential committee chairman Brian Mast

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Syria launches operation against ISIS as Al Shara arrives in Washington

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US removes Syria's President Ahmad Al Shara from terror list ahead of Washington visit

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Nearly 100 people abducted or forcibly disappeared in Syria since January, says UN

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ExclusiveSyria seeks $30bn for energy sector rehabilitation

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Syria denies 'false' report of plans for US military presence in Damascus

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UN lifts sanctions on Syria’s Ahmad Al Shara as China abstains

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Our cartoonist's take on the rising cost of electricity in Syria

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Syria thaws relations with Druze ahead of President Al Shara's US trip

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Anger as Syria raises electricity prices in major shift

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India’s ONGC ready to restart operations in Syria if 'normality' returns

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US urges UN to vote to lift sanctions against Syria's Ahmad Al Shara

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White House confirms Trump meeting with Ahmad Al Shara in Washington

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Spies, bribes and terror ties? French corporate giant Lafarge goes on trial

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Syrian President Ahmad Al Shara. FII Institute

US urges UN to vote to lift sanctions against Syria's Ahmad Al Shara

Decision expected this week on President and Interior Minister's removal from black list

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White House confirms Trump meeting with Ahmad Al Shara in Washington

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Spies, bribes and terror ties? French corporate giant Lafarge goes on trial

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Syrians freed from Assad's prisons are still trying to escape the horrors

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