{"id":139297,"date":"2026-05-31T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139297\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T20:30:09","slug":"trump-names-us-envoy-to-turkiye-as-special-presidential-envoy-to-syria-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/139297\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names US envoy to T\u00fcrkiye as special presidential envoy to Syria, Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Tom Barrack, the United States ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye, will also serve as special presidential envoy to Syria and Iraq. Writing on Truth Social, Trump stated that Washington is deepening its strategic engagement with both nations: \u201cOur relationship with them continues to grow.\u201d Barrack will remain ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye and operate with the full backing of the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>Expanded diplomatic role<\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Barrack, a longtime Trump ally confirmed as ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye in 2025, will now oversee US policy on Syria and Iraq. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Barrack will maintain a central diplomatic role managing policy for Syria following the expiration of his formal mandate as special envoy there, and will remain \u201ca key trusted hand on Iraq.\u201d Syria is undergoing a post\u2011Assad transition after the fall of Bashar al\u2011Assad\u2019s government in late 2024, while Iraq continues to manage complex relations with Washington amid the US\u2011Iran conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Tom Barrack, the United States ambassador to T\u00fcrkiye, will also serve as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[35627,94,95,392,10738],"class_list":["post-139297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-barrack","tag-iraq","tag-syria","tag-trump","tag-turkiye"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116671088105590753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}