On Friday, the Biden Administration ended the $10 million bounty that had been placed on Ahmed al-Sharaa, a militant Islamist in charge of one of the rebel groups that ultimately overthrew Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria.
As reported by Fox News, the Biden Administration’s envoy to the Middle East, Barbara Leaf, talked to reporters about her meeting with al-Sharaa, leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), saying that “we had a good, thoroughgoing discussion on a range of regional issues.”
“It was a policy decision…aligned with the fact that we are beginning a discussion with HTS,” Leaf continued. “So if I’m sitting with the HTS leader and having a lengthy detailed discussion about the interests of the US, interests of Syria, maybe interests of the region, it’s suffice to say a little incoherent then to have a bounty on the guy’s head.”
In exchange for lifting the bounty, Sharaa allegedly agreed to prevent terrorist groups in Syria from making threats against the U.S. and Syria’s neighbors in the region.
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