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Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Tues­day that he will ease sanc­tions on Syr­ia and move to nor­malise re­la­tions with its new gov­ern­ment to give the coun­try “a chance at peace.”

Trump made the an­nounce­ment short­ly be­fore he was set to meet Wednes­day in Sau­di Ara­bia with Syr­i­an Pres­i­dent Ah­mad al-Sharaa, the one­time in­sur­gent who last year led the over­throw of long­time leader Bashar As­sad. Trump said the ef­fort at rap­proche­ment came at the urg­ing of Crown Prince Mo­hammed bin Salman, the Sau­di de fac­to ruler, and Turk­ish Pres­i­dent Re­cep Tayyip Er­do­gan.

“There is a new gov­ern­ment that will hope­ful­ly suc­ceed,” Trump said of Syr­ia, adding, “I say, good luck, Syr­ia. Show us some­thing spe­cial.”