The formal reason for the trip is that al-Sharaa will sign an agreement that his country will be part of the US-led global coalition against IS.
But he is also expected to meet with Donald Trump and become the first Syrian president to visit the White House, writes Axios .
The visit is believed to take place on November 10, but the date has not been confirmed.
The visit was revealed by the US envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, during a meeting with journalists in Bahrain. He also stated that new negotiations between Syria and Israel on a security agreement between the countries will begin after al-Sharaa's US trip.
Ahmed al-Sharaa was the leader of the Islamist rebel group HTS which led the overthrow of former President Bashar al-Assad in December last year.
The movement, which was linked to al-Qaeda, has been officially dissolved, but its members have been incorporated into the new state apparatus. The US lifted its terrorist designation of the group in July of this year, and the UK did so as recently as last week.
Since coming to power, al-Sharaa has made a dramatic change, and has already met with Trump in Saudi Arabia. In September, he spoke at the UN General Assembly in New York, then as the first Syrian leader in nearly 60 years.
