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(JNS) - After signing agreements with Saudi Arabia worth about $600 billion on May 13, U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to tout the deals that evening during a speech in Riyadh at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum. Instead, he broke news announcing a major shift in U.S. foreign policy, by saying that he intended to lift sanctions on Syria, which had been imposed during the regime of Basher Assad.

"In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there's a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace," Trump told attendees, of the new governmen...