US delegation will meet the group of Syrian rebels who ousted Assad
A delegation of American diplomats has arrived in Syria to satisfy with representatives of a number of Syrian factions, together with a bunch of rebels designated as terrorists who overthrew the nation’s longtime dictator, Bashar al-Assad.
The journey to Damascus, the primary of its variety in additional than a decade, contains conferences with “civil society members, activists, members of diverse communities and other Syrian voices about their vision for the country’s future and how the United States can help support them ,” the State Department stated in an announcement launched Friday.
The go to may also embody at the least one assembly with representatives of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, or HTS, the Islamist group that with astonishing velocity seized the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Homs earlier than seizing Damascus this month. Assad, whose household had dominated for greater than half a century, fled to Moscow.
Although HTS has publicly separated from Al-Qaeda, it stays designated a terrorist group by the United States and different nations.
US diplomats plan to “discuss transition principles approved by the United States and regional partners,” the State Department stated. Their program additionally contains “trying to uncover information about the fate of Austin Tice, Majd Kamalmaz and other American citizens who disappeared under the Assad regime.”
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