US President Donald Trump recently welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to the White House — and social media can't stop talking about it. The buzz isn’t just about Al-Sharaa’s historic visit, which comes amid a US pause on sanctions and marks the first by a Syrian leader since the nation's independence from France in 1946 — but about how Trump welcomed him.

Reacting to the meet, one netizen joked, “if he tried something like that with Putin he'd be tackled to the floor, lights out lol.”

Who is Syria's President, Ahmed al-Sharaa?

Ahmed al-Sharaa – the Syrian president, was once a top Al-Qaeda commander – who had been branded as a terrorist by the US and carried a $10 million bounty on his head. On Monday, 10 November, al-Sharaa stood beside Trump at the White House, as the two men

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