Barbara A. Leaf: “We believe that pursuing the following priorities: defeating ISIS and al Qa'ida; increasing access to humanitarian aid…”

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.

The Biden administration has declined to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state and has stated that a Palestinian state should be established through, quote, 'direct negotiations between the parties involved in the conflict.'

It will not be done by military means alone.

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.