UN humanitarian chief ‘encouraged’ from meeting Syria’s new leaders

The UN humanitarian chief said on Tuesday that he was “encouraged” after meetings in Damascus with Syria’s new leaders, saying there was a “basis for ambitious scaling-up of vital humanitarian support”. “Moment of cautious hope in Syria,” Tom Fletcher said on X after meeting Ahmad Al Shara and who leads Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al Sham, which led the lightning offensive that toppled president Bashar Al Assad.