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Intel: Faith, civic leaders call on Biden to prioritize ending Syria's war

In a letter to President Joe Biden, a group of Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders called for the administration to adopt “a resolute, diplomacy-first" policy on Syria.

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A wedding convoy drives past Abu Ali's cafe, set up on the ground floor of a building heavily damaged during the civil war, in the Syrian town of Ariha in the rebel-held northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on July 11, 2021. — AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images

A coalition of civic and faith-based leaders is urging President Joe Biden to put Syria’s decadelong civil war at the top of his foreign policy agenda and appoint a personal envoy to push for peace. 

“We are writing to you not only as the President of the United States of America but as a person of faith striving for justice at home and abroad,” read a letter obtained by Al-Monitor sent this month to Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

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