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EU to test diplomatic waters with Syria’s new insurgent leadership
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEuropean Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says she has instructed the bloc’s top diplomat for Syria to go to Damascus and make contact with the country’s new government.
Speaking to reporters on arrival at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Kallas says the diplomat will go to the Syrian capital today.
The downfall of Syrian dictator Bashar-al-Assad has left the country in the hands of a coalition of insurgent groups led by Hayyat Tahrir al-Shams, a jihadist outfit once affiliated with al-Qaeda.
On Saturday, Kallas’s US counterpart Antony Blinken said Washington was making contact with HTS, as the group is known.
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