Joe Biden is sending top diplomats to Damascus to meet Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of the Islamist rebels who toppled Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad but are designated a terrorist group by the US.
Barbara Leaf, the state department’s senior Middle East official, will lead the delegation in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter.
The meeting would be the first formal in-person contact between the US and leaders of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which led the offensive that ousted Assad two weeks ago after a lightning offensive against the regime.
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