Intel: Why the US is backing off ousting Assad
Testifying in the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, US envoy for Syria engagement Jim Jeffrey said the Donald Trump administration's policy in Syria "is not regime change," but an "irreversible political process which will change the nature and behavior of the Syrian regime."
Why it matters: Jeffrey’s comments are an indication that the US may not move to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, even though the United Nations-backed Geneva peace talks — which the former US ambassador to Turkey was hired in August to resuscitate — seek to reunify the country with national elections.
