Dave DeCamp (2025-11-04). Syria's Former Al-Qaeda Leader-Turned President To Visit the White House. news.antiwar.com Syria's de facto president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al-Qaeda leader, is set to visit the White House within the next week as the Trump administration is pushing for Congress to fully lift the Caesar Act sanctions that were imposed on Syria in 2020. The sanctions were specifically designed to prevent Syria's reconstruction, and they had …