Trump meets interim Syrian president

Donald Trump has met the Syrian interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday morning, BBC reports.

The brief meeting came after the US lifted sanctions on Syria - Trump said the move is designed to "give them a chance at greatness."

Until December, the US offered a $10m reward for al-Sharaa's arrest, our correspondent Lina Sinjab writes from Damascus.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attended the US-Syria meeting, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined remotely.

Trump then addressed a Gulf leaders' summit - saying again he wanted a deal with Iran, but they must stop "sponsoring terror."

After his meetings in Riyadh this morning, Trump will head to Qatar on the next stop of his four-day Middle East visit.