The US State Department’s top Middle East envoy, Barbara Leaf, arrived in Damascus today for meetings with Syria’s new interim government headed by Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham. Afterwards, it was announced that the $10 million bounty on the group’s leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, had been removed. Host Carol Hills spoke with Ibrahim Al-Assil, a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute, about Leaf’s visit.
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