Washington Renews Rejection of ‘Normalization’ with Damascus

Barbara Leaf received the Syrian opposition delegation in Washington on Tuesday. (US State Department)

The US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Barbara Leaf, stressed that no normalization would take place with the Syrian regime “in the absence of permanent political change."

The US State Department announced, in a tweet, that Leaf met with a delegation of the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and reaffirmed that the US policy towards Syria “has not changed.”