US Embassy in Syria Reopened

The US is restarting diplomatic operations in its embassy in Damascus, Syria, as relations between Syria’s interim government and the US improve. 

The embassy had been closed since February 2012 due to internal conflict and violence caused by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported how “Ambassador Thomas Barrack raised the American flag over the ambassador’s residence in Damascus, Syria for the first time since the embassy closed in 2012.”

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