A State Division spokesperson confirmed that the diplomats mentioned “transition rules” supported by the US, regional occasions and regional occasions and the necessity to struggle towards ISIS.
The spokesperson confirmed the officers have been additionally in search of additional info on Americans who’ve disappeared underneath Assad’s regime, together with journalist Austin Tice who was kidnapped in Damascus in 2012 and psychotherapist Majd Kamalmaz who disappeared in 2017.
The go to is the primary formal American diplomatic look in Damascus in additional than a decade.
It’s a additional signal of the dramatic shifts underneath means in Syria because the ousting of Assad, and the pace of efforts by the US and Europe, additionally leaning on Arab international locations, to attempt to affect its rising governance.
The go to follows these of delegations in latest days from the UN and different international locations together with the UK, France and Germany.
The delegation of senior officers contains Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf, Roger Carstens, who’s US President Joe Biden’s hostage envoy and Daniel Rubinstein, senior adviser within the Bureau of Close to East Affairs.
