Senior US officials arrived in Damascus on Friday for the first diplomatic mission to the Syrian capital since the fall of former president Bashar Al-Assad’s government earlier this month. The US delegation, led by Barbara Leaf, the senior State Department official for the Middle East, is expected to meet with ...
The US said it was considering sanctions on top Lebanese officials, allegedly for their obstruction of electing a new president in the country, a top State Department official said Wednesday. During a Senate committee hearing on the Middle East, the top US diplomat for the region said the US was ...
