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Rubio warns Syria close to civil war, ‘country splitting up’
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AnnaMoneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns that Syria could be weeks away from civil war, days after he met with the country’s transitional leaders.
“It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they’re facing, are maybe weeks — not many months — away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up,” Rubio tells a Senate hearing.
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