France 24 English / US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would lift sanctions on Syria to offer it a chance for "greatness" after Bashar al-Assad's fall, as he cast himself as a peacemaker in the Middle East. On a state visit to Saudi Arabia, the billionaire president took aim both at the US left and right, whom he said had intervened in the region in the guise of "nation builders" but "wrecked far more nations than they built."