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Blinken Tours Middle East

Handout photo shows Secrertary Antony J. Blinken shakes hands with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi during the Syria-focused meeting held in Aqaba, Jordan, on December 14, 2024. Antony Blinken said the US had made “direct contact” with Syria’s victorious Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels as western and Arab states along with Turkey jointly voiced support for a united, peaceful Syria. The US secretary of state’s comment is despite Washington having designated the HTS rebels as terrorists in 2018. Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy via ABACAPRESS.COM