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Blinken says U.S. had direct contact with Syria's Islamist rebels
Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the U.S. has been in direct contact with Sunni Islamist opposition group HTS, which led the revolution that toppled Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria.
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Where Biden’s secretary of state choice Tony Blinken stands on Jewish issues, from immigration to Israel
(JTA) — Tony Blinken, President-elect Joe Biden’s choice for secretary of state, is the stepson of a Holocaust survivor whose stories shaped his worldview and subsequently his policy decisions ...
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Tony Blinken, accepting Biden’s secretary of state nomination, notes Jewish roots
(JTA) — Tony Blinken vividly described his stepfather’s Holocaust-era rescue in accepting President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination to be secretary of state on Tuesday. Blinken also noted other ...