United States President Donald Trump is set to host Syria's interim leader Ahmed al-Sharaa for talks in Washington this month, marking the first visit by a Syrian president to the US capital in more than eight decades, Al Jazeera reported.

According to the report, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said during a speech in Bahrain on Sunday that the visit would help open a "new chapter" in relations between Damascus and Washington.

"President Ahmed al-Sharaa will be at the White House at the start of November," al-Shaibani said. "Of course, this is a historic visit. It is the first visit by a Syrian president to the White House in more than 80 years."

Al-Shaibani said the agenda for the talks would include "the lifting of sanctions and opening of a new chapter between the United S

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