President Al-Sharaa held a 90-minute meeting with U.S. congressman in Damascus

DAMASCUS, Apr.19, (ST)-On Friday night, President Ahmad Al-Shara’a, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates met US Congressman Cory Lee Mills.

The meeting was held at the People’s Palace in Damascus, according to the state-run Al-Thawra telegram channel.

In this context Reuters reported that Two U.S. Congress members landed in Damascus on Friday to meet Syrian officials, the first visit by American lawmakers to Syria since Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power last December.

It clarified that The two are U.S. Representatives Cory Mills of Florida, who serves on the House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees, and Marlin Stutzman of Indiana. Both are members of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.

The meeting between president Al-Sharaa and Mills dealt with US sanctions and Iran, according to Reuters’s sources, which indicated that Stutzman was set to meet on Saturday with president Al-Sharaa,

Mills and Stutzman toured parts of the Syrian capital destroyed by the war, met with Christian religious leaders and plan to meet other Syrian government ministers.

Basma Qaddour