U.S. officials are in Syria with goals to advance Aqaba principles and seek information on American citizens who disappeared ...

Ms Barbara Leaf, the US diplomat for the Middle East, says the talks were positive. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Senior diplomat Barbara Leaf says she received 'positive messages' on fighting terror from Ahmed al-Sharaa; new leaders say ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken previously noted that world leaders discussed "the need for an inclusive, Syrian-led political transition" during the Aqaba Meetings on Syria in Jordan on Dec. 14.

The trip comes a week after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States had been in direct contact with HTS as he toured Syria's neighbors. At talks in the Jordanian resort of Aqaba ...

He also seeks to coordinate with allies to advance principles laid out in a meeting between world leaders in the Jordanian city of Aqaba earlier this month. Biden Says Us Knows 'With Certainty' That ...

and Syria's diverse ethnic and religious communities." The United States agreed on those principles with top Arab and European diplomats as well as Turkey during a meeting on December 14 in Aqaba, ...

The trip comes a week after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United States had been in direct contact with HTS as he toured Syria's neighbors. At talks in the Jordanian resort of Aqaba, ...

Hostage envoy Roger Carstens traveled to Syria Friday, making the first known U.S. in-person contact with the caretaker ...