Sharaa, the head of the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, held meetings with Lebanese and Turkish figures, while a Saudi delegation is also expected to visit the country.

Sham, pledged to American diplomats that he would not allow terrorist groups there to threaten the West Senior U.S. diplomats on Friday held their first formal talks in Damascus with the leader of the Islamist rebels who overthrew the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,

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

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.