Top US officials in Damascus to meet new Syrian rulers, State Department says

By Humeyra Pamuk and Amina Ismail WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Top U.S. diplomats were expected to hold Washington's first in-person official meetings with Syria's new de facto rulers led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Damascus on Friday, hoping to gauge how the former al Qaeda affiliate plans to run the country. The United States, other Western powers and many Syrians were glad to see militias