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US raises flag in Damascus: New envoy signals shift in US–Syria relations post-Assad
For the first time since 2012, the flag was raised as the new US Envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, arrived in Damascus.
Trump's Syrian Outreach Turns an Enemy Into a Friend
Hawks in Washington often make it sound hard to end conflicts with other countries, but the United States and Syria are ...
US flag raised in Damascus, envoy says Syria-Israel peace is possible
The United States' newly-appointed Syria envoy said he believed peace between Syria and Israel was achievable as he made his ...
New U.S. Envoy Makes First and Symbolic Trip to Syria
Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Damascus, amid broader efforts by the Trump ...
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In Damascus, US envoy inks $7 billion energy deal, calls for Israel-Syria peace pact
On a visit to Damascus Thursday, newly appointed US envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack inked a $7 billion energy deal between ...
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Can Syria Recover?
For months, many Syrians and Syria watchers had worried that the United States might never lift its sanctions. Washington first imposed sanctions on Syria in 1979, when it declared its regime to be a ...
US Special Envoy Praises Syrian Leader's Steps on Foreign Fighters
Thomas Barrack, a special envoy to Syria and the current U.S. ambassador to Turkey, said in a statement that the two met in ...
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US envoy urges Syria-Israel non-aggression pact
The US embassy in Syria was closed after Assad’s repression of a peaceful uprising that began in 2011, which degenerated into ...
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US suggests Syria-Israel non-aggression deal
The United States' new envoy for Syria, Thomas Barrack, called for a non-aggression agreement between Syria and Israel in ...
Marco Rubio warns Syria ‘weeks’ away from ‘collapse and full-scale civil war of epic proportions’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio bleakly warned that Syria appears to be weeks away from plunging into another civil war or ...