(AP).- The highest diplomats from the USA, the Arab League and Turkey met this Saturday, December 14, in Jordan to talk about methods to lend a hand the transition in Syria after the autumn of Bashar Assad’s govt per week in the past. No Syrian consultant attended.
The cave in of the Assad circle of relatives’s greater than half-century rule raised new fears of instability in a area already shaken by way of the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, in addition to hostilities between Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah regardless of of a tenuous ceasefire.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned U.S. officers had been in direct touch with the Syrian rebel team that led the overthrow of Assad’s govt, however the team stays designated a international 15 may organization by way of the USA and others.
The rebel chief in an interview with Syrian tv didn’t point out any touch with the USA, however warned Israel concerning the masses of airstrikes it has performed in Syria within the ultimate week.
The USA may be stepping up efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, the place the conflict has plunged greater than two million Palestinians into a major humanitarian disaster.
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