{"id":7316,"date":"2025-05-14T18:06:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7316"},"modified":"2025-05-14T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:06:33","slug":"us-qatar-sign-deals-worth-1-2tn-in-economic-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=7316","title":{"rendered":"US, Qatar sign deals worth $1.2tn in economic exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Agreements signed by US\u00a0President Donald Trump and Qatar&#8217;s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday will &#8220;generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion,&#8221; the White House said in a\u00a0fact sheet,\u00a0summarizing some of the deals&#8217; details.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements include a $96 billion deal with Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X airplanes with GE Aerospace engines, the fact sheet said. They also include a statement of intent that could lead to $38 billion in investments at Qatar&#8217;s Al Udeid Air Base and other air defense and maritime security capabilities, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday,\u00a0Trump\u00a0met with Syria&#8217;s president in Saudi Arabia and urged him to normalise ties with longtime foe Israel, after a surprise US\u00a0announcement that it would lift all sanctions on the Islamist-led government.<\/p>\n<p>Trump met Syria&#8217;s\u00a0Ahmed al-Sharaa, who once pledged allegiance to al Qaeda and swept to power at the head of a group that Washington has called a terrorist organisation, before a summit between the United States and Gulf Arab countries.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agreements signed by US\u00a0President Donald Trump and Qatar&#8217;s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani on Wednesday will &#8220;generate an economic exchange worth at least $1.2 trillion,&#8221; the White House said in a\u00a0fact sheet,\u00a0summarizing some of the deals&#8217; details. The agreements include a $96 billion deal with Qatar Airways to buy up to 210 Boeing 787 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}