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DAMASCUS: Washington has scrapped a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria’s new leader, a US diplomat said on Friday, following “positive messages” from a first meeting that included a promise to fight terrorism.
Barbara Leaf, Washington’s top diplomat for the Middle East, made the comments after her meeting with Ahmed Al Sharaa in Damascus — the first formal mission...