On Monday, US President Donald J. Trump received Ahmed al-Sharaa, the de facto president of post-Bashar Syria, and his senior ministers at the White House to discuss Syria's future.Also present was Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, whose government has been one of the most influential external players in aiming to shape Syria according to Turkish imperial ambitions. Nevertheless, strikingly, neither representatives of Syria's minority communities – Kurds, Druze, and Alawites – nor officials