World leaders congratulated President Donald Trump on his inauguration Monday, with many urging stronger alliances or continued cooperation between their countries and the United States, in carefully crafted social media posts and statements.

The president-elect may want to withdraw U.S. troops from the area, but if he does, he’d put a victory he’s proud of at risk.

The dramatic collapse of the Assad government should clear the way for desperately needed reforms to the U.S. sanctions regime.

The U.S. will keep HTS on the list of terrorist organizations for the remainder of President Joe Biden’s tenure, leaving the decision to Donald Trump, officials say.

Since the fall of President Bashar Assad regime, tensions across the Middle East have continued to remain high.

In addition to removing Cuba from the terror list, the White House will also issue the country a waiver from Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which strengthened embargo provisions against Cuba. Title III of the law allows U.S. citizens to sue individuals allegedly trafficking in property expropriated by the country’s communist government.

Outgoing President Biden announces removal of Cuba's designation as state sponsor of terrorism, in exchange for release of 553 political prisoners from Cuban prison.

President Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president of the United States of America on Monday, January 20th, 2025. Trump’s return to power will shift governance in the United States, introducing sweeping changes to domestic and international policies.

In a statement the following day, Trump’s acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced that the Biden administration’s guidelines on these areas were being rescinded, as well as an end to what the Trump administration has termed the “the broad abuse of humanitarian parole.”

They are looking to resolve one of the most explosive questions looming over Syria: the fate of Kurdish forces that the U.S. considers key allies against Islamic State and that Turkey regards as a national security threat.

TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew was seated on the dais at Trump’s inauguration Monday, signaling a budding alliance with the president. Massie, the Republican who co-sponsored the bill to repeal the ban, posted a photo he’d taken of Chew from the crowd on X. “Tick tock, the TikTok ban is about to end,” Massie wrote.

World leaders, including the heads of NATO and the European Union, congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump, who returned to the White House after