{"id":704990,"date":"2026-01-18T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T21:04:27","slug":"syrian-president-cancels-germany-visit-merz-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/704990\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian president cancels Germany visit, Merz meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria&#8217;s President \u200bAhmed al-Sharaa has \u200ccancelled his visit to \u200cBerlin on Monday and Tuesday, a German government spokesperson \u2060told \u200cReuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Al-Sharaa had been scheduled to \u200dmeet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and \u200bPresident Frank-Walter Steinmeier. \u200cTalks with German business leaders were also planned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A ceasefire was agreed on \u2060Sunday after \u200bdays of \u200bfierce clashes between Syrian government troops \u200dand \u2060U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, \u2060Writing by Rachel \u200cMore, Editing by \u200cAlexander Smith)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Syria&#8217;s President \u200bAhmed al-Sharaa has \u200ccancelled his visit to \u200cBerlin on Monday and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1945,8387,1824,211739],"class_list":{"0":"post-704990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-friedrich-merz","11":"tag-german-government","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-syria39s-president"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115918134488174747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}