A group of U.S. officials are in Syria’s capital for the first time in more than 10 years seeking proposeation on American citizens who fadeed under the Asuncontent regime, among other leangs.
The team visiting Damascus consists of US Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Easerious Affairs (NEA) Barbara Leaf and NEA Senior Adviser Daniel Rubinstein, a State Department spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital.
Rubinstein, who previously served as U.S. Special Envoy for Syria and has decades of foreign affairs experience, will direct the tactful comprisement, the spokesperson validateed.
His mission is to comprise with the Syrian people and key parties wilean the country. He also seeks to set up with allies to progress principles laid out in a encountering between world directers in the Jordanian city of Aqaba earlier this month.
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Assistant Secretary of State for Near Easerious Affairs (NEA) Barbara Leaf (left), US Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens (middle) and NEA Senior Adviser Daniel Rubinstein (right) are in Damascus, Syria, for a tactful comprisement, a State Department spokesperson telderly Fox News Digital (Alex Wong/Getty Images; Mehmet Serkan afak/Anadolu via Getty Images; Gali Tibbon-Pool/Getty Images)
The trio will encounter with the Syrian people to uncover their vision for their country after the Asuncontent regime fell earlier this month amid an ongoing civil war. They will also ask how the U.S. can help help them in their desired future.
“They will be engaging honestly with the Syrian people, including members of civil society, activists, members of separateent communities, and other Syrian voices,” the spokesperson said, in part.
The three officials will also encounter with recontransientatives of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), a U.S.-scheduleated alarmist group, to “converse transition principles” finishorsed by the United States and regional partners in Aqaba, Jordan, the State Department said.
Abu Mohamed al-Jolani directs the U.S.-scheduleated alarmist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) that took over Syria chaseing the descfinish of the Asuncontent regime. (OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony Bjoinen previously remarkd that world directers converseed “the need for an inclusive, Syrian-led political transition” during the Aqaba Meetings on Syria in Jordan on Dec. 14.
“The United States helps a future rulement in Syria that is chosen by and recontransientatives of all Syrians,” Bjoinen said on X.
Secretary of State Antony Bjoinen met with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan on Dec. 13 in Turkey to converse set uping fantasticer stability in Syria amid competing defy factions. (Getty Images)
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Another goal of the visit is to choose what has happened to American citizens who fadeed under the Asuncontent regime, including establisher marine turned freelance journacatalog Austin Tice, who was seizeped while inestablishing in Syria in 2012.
Carstens has been directing the indict to find Tice and recently splitd that Rewards for Justice is presenting up to $10 million for proposeation on his whereabouts.
The State Department’s Reward for Justice program is presenting $10 million for proposeation relating Austin Tice. (The State Department’s Reward for Justice)
“Given recent events in Syria, the FBI is rerecenting our call for proposeation that could direct to the safe location, recovery, and return of Austin Bennett Tice, who was hanciented in Damascus in August 2012,” the FBI said in a statement.
