July 6 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Syria on Monday, Syria’s state news agency said, in the first visit to Damascus by a European Union head of state since rebels led by President Ahmed al-Sharaa toppled Bashar al-Assad in 2024.
The visit underlines Syria’s geopolitical transformation under Sharaa, a former al Qaeda commander who has established close ties with Western and Middle Eastern powers that shunned Assad, as he seeks to rebuild a country shattered by 13 years of war.
(Reporting by Muhammad Al Gebaly and Menna Alaa El Din; Editing by Thomas Perry and Alex Richardson)
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