Top US official on Syria and Daesh retires
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced yesterday that James Jeffrey, the State Department’s special envoy for Syria engagement and the global coalition to defeat Daesh, will retire from his role this month. The announcement came the same day the Trump administration said it would impose new sanctions against Syrian officials and entities for their role in facilitating human rights abuses over the course of the country’s nearly decade long civil war. Jeffrey is...
