Middle Euphrates River Valley, Syria 0
11 January 2018

 In testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a top state department official, David Satterfield, asserted that the U.S. “seek[s] to not only diminish Iranian foreign influence in Syria generally, but to protect our allies from the very real threat Hizbollah poses in southwest Syria to our allies”.

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