US Secretary of State, Antony Blinkenconfirmed this Saturday in Jordan that his country in contact With Islamist Alliance Levant Liberation Organization (HTS, Arabic acronym), which led the rebel offensive to overthrow the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“We have been in contact with HTS and other parties,” Blinken said at a news conference in Aqaba, in the south of the country. Jordanwhere he participates in an international meeting in support of political transition in Syria following the overthrow of Assad last Sunday.

“We emphasized to everyone we spoke with. the importance of finding Austin Tice (a journalist missing in Syria) and bring him home, and we also share the principles that I just outlined,” the Secretary of State added during his speech.

Thais is exmarine, who decided to go to Syria in 2012 to cover the Arab country’s just started civil war and disappeared in August of that year, just as she was planning to leave Syrian territory across the border with Lebanon.

Washington has recognized as a terrorist by the Levant Liberation Organizationwhich includes the former Syrian subsidiary Al Qaedaa person who is also considered such by decision UN Security Council was adopted at the height of the Syrian civil war.

Blinken is in Aqaba to attend a conference on Syria convened by King Abdullah II of Jordanwhich is also attended by several Arab countries and the head of diplomacy of France, Jean-Noël Barrault, and Turkey, Hakan Fidan, a supporter of the opposition that overthrew Assad.

EFE