U.S. President Donald Trump met with Syria's president in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, after a surprise U.S. announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government.

Amazon, Google, and Nvidia are among those who struck deals during Trump's visit to the Middle East, his first major overseas trip of his second term.

Saudi Arabia will look to make good on its $1 trillion US investment pledge through a sovereign wealth fund, which has developed close ties to law firms that recently entered into settlements with President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration is clearing a path for two key Persian Gulf allies to pursue their artificial intelligence ambitions — and some of the biggest US tech companies are seizing on that opening with plans to spend billions of dollars in the region.

President Donald Trump is in Qatar after he met with Syria’s interim president and inked deals in Saudi Arabia. Follow here for the latest live news updates.

Donald Trump hailed the Syrian president as a “young, attractive guy” after the first meeting between the nations’ leaders in 25 years.The meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday came after the president made a surprise announcement that the U.

Trump is again diverging from U.S. presidential habit by choosing the Middle East, not Canada or Mexico, for the first foreign trip of his second term. He's hoping to do deals with three of the region's wealthiest countries.

"I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness," Trump told an investment forum in Riyadh. "It's their time to shine. We're taking them all off,