Syria to join US-led coalition fighting IS group
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.2 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The US says Syria is joining the international coalition to combat the Islamic State group, and Damascus is resuming diplomatic relations with Washington. The announcement came hours after Donald Trump met the Syrian president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, at the White House, describing him as a strong leader. President Trump said he wanted Syria to be a "big part" of his plan for a wider Middle East peace. Also: The Indian capital, Delhi, is on high alert after a deadly explosion. The woman known as the "Chinese Cryptoqueen" is due to be sentenced for stealing billions of dollars from investors. And the novel "Flesh", by David Szalay wins the Booker Prize, Britain's most prestigious award for literary fiction.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:11.7 | I'm Ankara, and in the early hours of Tuesday, the 11th of November, these are our top stories. |
| 0:17.7 | The US says Syria is joining the international coalition to defeat Islamic State |
| 0:21.9 | jihadis and is resuming diplomatic relations with Washington. It follows talks at the White |
| 0:27.3 | House between Donald Trump and the Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara. The U.S. Senate has voted in favor |
| 0:33.7 | of a compromise funding package to try to end the government shutdown. |
| 0:40.2 | And also coming up in this podcast, the UK's top literary award is handed out. |
| 0:45.1 | I wanted to have got some momentum and I felt that it was going to be good. |
| 0:48.6 | Then it became a pleasurable process to write it, but at the beginning was tough. |
| 0:52.3 | We hear from the British Hungarian author David Saloy, who won the Booker Prize. |
| 0:59.7 | The US has recruited a new member to its alliance of countries fighting the Islamic State |
| 1:04.6 | Group in the Middle East. Officials in Washington say Syria has joined the coalition |
| 1:09.2 | after its president Ahmed al-Shara met Donald Trump |
| 1:12.7 | at the White House. The two countries have also resumed diplomatic relations. Mr. Al-Sharah is |
| 1:18.6 | himself a former Islamist extremist with ties to al-Qaeda. But last year he led the overthrow of the Syrian |
| 1:25.0 | dictator Bashar al-Assad and became the head of the new government. |
| 1:29.7 | Since then, he's been trying to build bridges with the West, promising to bring stability to Syria. |
| 1:35.5 | On Monday, Mr. Al-Sharah arrived at the White House without fanfare, entering through a side door. |
| 1:41.8 | Afterwards, Mr. Trump said he liked and got along with him. We want to see Syria become a country that's very successful, and I think this leader can do it. I really do. I think this leader can do it. And people said he's had a rough past. We've all had rough pasts. But he has had a rough past. And I think, frankly, if you didn't have a rough |
| 2:00.9 | pass, you wouldn't have a chance. |
| 2:02.7 | Later in an interview with Fox News, President Al-Shara was asked whether his past as an extremist |
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