Trump Meets Zelensky, Syria's al-Sharaa at NATO Summit
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- Trump will hold bilateral meetings Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during the annual NATO summit.
- The meetings take place on Trump's trip to Ankara, Turkey, for the two-day summit, with the president departing Monday evening.
- A senior White House official confirmed the bilateral schedule.
- The sessions will be one-on-one meetings between Trump and each leader, held on the sidelines of NATO's annual gathering in Turkey's capital.
Why it matters: Trump will meet both Zelensky and Syria's al-Sharaa during a single two-day Ankara trip, concentrating US bilateral engagement with leaders from two major conflict zones alongside the formal NATO agenda. The al-Sharaa sit-down places direct US-Syria presidential diplomacy on NATO-host Turkish soil, a notable normalization signal given Syria's leadership change since the Assad era.
