Barbara A. Leaf: “As long as Bashar al-Assad is in control of Syria and Iran is present in Syria, it would be greatly irresponsible to…”

We are foursquare opposed to normalization. We do not think Assad merited an invitation to the Arab League.

Let me be frank with you. After more than a decade of conflict, prospects remain limited for advancing a political solution worthy of Syrians who bravely demanded change more than 10 years ago.

I want to be clear on what we have not done in Syria and what we will not do, which is support efforts to normalize or rehabilitate Bashar Al-Assad in any way, lift sanctions on the regime, or change our position opposing reconstruction in…

We are going to go for broke. We are going to try to get a larger extension of that and see if we can get other border points open as well.