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US to lift $10M bounty on de facto Syrian leader's head
Headline from NBC 6 South Florida, on the newest of 2 developments
The U.S. is set to remove the $10 million bounty it had placed on de facto Syrian leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the head of rebel group HTS.
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Associated Press DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Biden administration said Friday it has decided not to pursue a $10 million reward it had offered for the capture of a Syrian rebel leader whose forces led the ouster of President Bashar Assad earlier this month.
By Jennifer Hansler, Alex Marquardt and Michael Conte, CNN (CNN) — The United States has removed the long-standing $10 million bounty on the de-facto leader of Syria following a high-level US delegation meeting with the former jihadist Friday.
Washington is scrapping a long-standing reward for the arrest of Syria's new leader, a senior U.S. diplomat said Friday, following "positive messages" from a first meeting that included a promise to fight terrorism.
The leader of the rebel forces group that took back Damascus from Bashar al-Assad will now rule without fear of a $10 million bounty the U.S. had on him.
