First images of Trump-Sharaa meeting, via Syrian presidency.

TRUMP MEETING WITH SHARAA HAS BEGUN - WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL

🔊 The Syrian president is in Washington for talks with Donald Trump hoping to find a way to end tough sanctions against Damascus. @timourazhari tells the Reuters World News podcast what this involves https://t.co/howcO7LUkE

The Syrian information ministry declined to comment on specific plots, citing security reasons, but said IS continues to pose "a real security threat to Syria and the region" and added that authorities had in the past 10 months foiled a number of IS attacks on various sites,

The sources said that, in one case, the IS plot was centered around a pre-announced official engagement involving Sharaa, declining to provide further details due to the sensitivity of the matter. Story here: https://t.co/rz5gyujmK9

SCOOP -- Syria foiled two Islamic State plots to assassinate President Ahmed al-Sharaa in the past months, two senior officials said. It adds a personal dimension to the leader's plans to join the U.S.-led coalition to fight a militant group he has long battled. 🧵

Reuters journalist Raneen Sawafta and security advisor Grant Bowden were injured in an Israeli settler attack while covering an olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank over the weekend. Such incidents are rarely investigated by Israeli authorities & perpetrators rarely

NEW -- Syrian security forces have carried out 61 raids, detained 71 people in nationwide pre-emptive raids targeting Islamic State cells. -- Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba Comes ahead of Syria joining US-led military coalition.

In Syria’s south, Bedouins uprooted by sectarian clashes see little hope of return Months of work by Reuters colleagues on this: https://t.co/ybu1dkFFgH

SCOOP: The United States gathered intelligence last year that Israel’s military lawyers warned there was evidence that could support war crimes charges against Israel for its military campaign in Gaza, five former U.S. officials told @ErinBanco @JonathanLanday and me 1/x

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa has been removed from the list of U.S. Specially Designated Global Terrorists -- Reuters

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Senior Middle Eastern official: - Around 1,000 civilians to return first - Approx 8,000 fighters to follow after screening - Some 1,000 commanders & mid-level figures to be sent to a third country, likely in Europe.

EXCLUSIVE -- Turkey is in talks with the PKK to let thousands of PKK fighters and civilians return home from hideouts in northern Iraq via a special law aimed at ending generations of war. Current plan to send top commanders to a third country, likely in Europe. 🧵

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday. The U.S.-drafted resolution on Thursday also lifted sanctions on Syrian

Story w/ @suleimankhalidi & @FerasDalatey https://t.co/pHaOuehxFU

EXCLUSIVE -- The U.S. is preparing to establish a military presence at an airbase in Damascus, according to six sources: - Major sign of Syria's strategic realignment with Washington after Assad's fall - Aims to help enable a Syria-Israel deal the Trump admin is trying to broker

3 hard truths define Iraq today: • Its economy lives and dies with oil • Recent government policies haven’t reduced oil reliance – they’ve made it worse • If oil drops below $53, revenues won't cover its wage & pension bill Full analysis on @TheTerminal

Nov 5 (Reuters) - Iraq's has awarded a $764m project to expand Baghdad's international airport to Corporacion America Airports and Iraq's Amwaj International. Airport hasn't been developed since 80s. Plan is to build new terminal, hit 8.5mn passenger capacity in 3 years.