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Report: US State Department’s top diplomat for the Middle East to travel to Damascus in coming days
The US State Department’s top diplomat for the Middle East, Barbara Leaf, will travel to the Syrian capital Damascus in the coming days, the Axios news site reports.
The State Department does not immediately respond to a request for confirmation.
Washington still designates as a terrorist organization the Sunni Muslim group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led the rebel forces that ended 50 years of brutal dynastic rule by Assad earlier this month.
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