{"id":12436,"date":"2026-01-18T19:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/syrian-president-cancels-germany-visit-merz-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:10:18","slug":"syrian-president-cancels-germany-visit-merz-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/syrian-president-cancels-germany-visit-merz-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian president cancels Germany visit, Merz meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria&#8217;s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has cancelled his visit to Berlin on Monday and Tuesday, a German government spokesperson told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sharaa had been scheduled to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Talks with German business leaders were also planned.<\/p>\n<p>A ceasefire was agreed on Sunday after days of fierce clashes between Syrian government troops and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters.  <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Andreas Rinke, Writing by Rachel More, Editing by Alexander Smith)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n   ...<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2026\/01\/syrian-president-cancels-germany-visit-merz-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria&#8217;s President Ahmed al-Sharaa has cancelled his visit to Berlin on Monday and Tuesday, a German government&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3459,3511],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle-east","category-moyen-orient"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}