Metropolitan Digital

Men's Weekly


.

Trump’s lifting of Syria sanctions is a win for Turkey, too – pointing to outsized role middle powers can play in regional affairs

  • Written by Hyeran Jo, Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University
Trump’s lifting of Syria sanctions is a win for Turkey, too – pointing to outsized role middle powers can play in regional affairsTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa meet in Turkey on April 11, 2025. TUR Presidency/ Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images

President Donald Trump announced while in Saudi Arabia on May 14, 2025, that the United States would lift sanctions on Syria. The turnaround was a huge victory for the...

Read more: Trump’s lifting of Syria sanctions is a win for Turkey, too – pointing to outsized role middle...

More Articles ...

  1. Space tourism’s growth blurs the line between scientific and symbolic achievement – a tourism scholar explains how
  2. Believe it or not, there was a time when the US government built beautiful homes for working-class Americans to deal with a housing crisis
  3. In what order did the planets in our solar system form?
  4. H-bomb creator Richard Garwin was a giant in science, technology and policy
  5. Landing on the Moon is an incredibly difficult feat − 2025 has brought successes and shortfalls for companies and space agencies
  6. Touch can comfort and heal, but also harm − a psychologist explains why gestures don’t always land as intended
  7. Why we fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts
  8. Cultivating obedience: Using the Justice Department to attack former officials consolidates power and deters dissent
  9. New chancellor, old constraints: Germany’s Friedrich Merz will have a hard time freeing the country from its self-imposed shackles
  10. Trump’s vision for Air Force One will turn it from the ‘Flying White House’ to a ‘palace in the sky’
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more