Syria’s interim president in Saudi Arabia on first trip abroad

Ahmad al-Sharaa is Syria’s interim president. Picture: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP

Syria’s interim president has made his first trip abroad, travelling to Saudi Arabia in a move likely trying to signal Damascus’s shift away from Iran as its main regional ally.

Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was once aligned with al-Qaeda, travelled to Riyadh alongside his government’s foreign minister, Asaad al-Shaibani.