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Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
Ahmed al-Sharah once set up an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, and last year he led the insurgents who toppled Bashar al-Assad.
Now he's promising to work with the U.S.
on counterterrorism, joining the International Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and Trump's Treasury Department is suspending U.S.
President Trump says you have to be tough in the Middle East, and he likes al-Sharah.
I think this leader can do it.
Trump says he's also working to improve relations between Syria and Israel.
Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
State Department officials are touting what they say is the Trump administration's first major humanitarian response after the dismantlement of the U.S.
Agency for International Development.
The State Department is now in the lead of foreign assistance.
The initial funding includes $12 million for Jamaica, $8.5 million for Haiti, and $3 million for Cuba.
There, the Catholic Church will deliver U.S.
assistance, not the Cuban government.
A top State Department official says a disaster team of more than 30 U.S.
government officials remains in Jamaica and will announce further aid packages after assessing the needs.
Michelle Kellerman, NPR News, the State Department.
The International Committee of the Red Cross has the grim task of taking bodies held by Hamas and returning them to Israel.