Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for freeing Americans held overseas, is in Syria for a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the caretaker government and asking for help finding missing American journalist Austin Tice. Carsten spoke to CBS News in an exclusive interview for “Face the Nation.” Source: CBS
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Over 100,000 people were forcibly disappeared under Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, according to rights groups. Imtiaz Tyab spoke with people desperate to find their loved ones after Damascus fell to Syrian rebels. Source: CBS
Syria wants to contribute to “regional peace”, the country’s new authorities said late Friday, after a meeting between leader Ahmed al-Sharaa and a US diplomatic delegation. “The Syrian side indicated that the Syrian people stand at an equal distance from all countries and parties in the region and that Syria rejects any polarisation,” the statement […]