The US has canceled a $10 million reward for information about al-Jolani
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Barbara Leaf, the US State Department’s senior diplomat for the Middle East, Roger Carstens, the US presidential envoy for prisoners of war, as well as Daniel Rubinstein, the newly appointed senior adviser who is responsible for directing US interactions with Syria. is in charge, they form the American delegation that went to Damascus. This is the first trip of American diplomats to Syria since 2012.
Lief claimed about this meeting: We discussed the need to ensure that terrorist groups inside or outside Syria, including the United States and our partners in the region, do not pose a threat. Based on these negotiations, I informed him that we were no longer after him and that the reward that had been in place for several years (for information about him) was no longer in effect.
According to him, despite this action, America still considers Tahrir al-Sham to be a foreign terrorist organization and the resulting sanctions against this group will remain in force.
The American diplomat said that the decision to cancel the said award was a policy change aimed at legitimizing interaction and negotiation with this terrorist group.
Leif added: It doesn’t seem very logical to sit down with the head of Tahrir al-Sham’s editorial board and have a detailed discussion and at the same time set a prize for him.
