{"id":357874,"date":"2025-06-01T14:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=357874"},"modified":"2025-06-01T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T11:27:12","slug":"us-state-department-us-flag-raising-in-damascus-over-the-ambassadors-residence-is-a-pivotal-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=357874","title":{"rendered":"US State Department: US flag raising in Damascus over the ambassador&#8217;s residence is a pivotal moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, SANA-The US State Department confirmed that raising the American flag for the first time since 2012 over the ambassador&#8217;s residence in the capital, Damascus, in the presence of US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack, represents a &#8220;milestone moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is a symbolic step that coincides with Washington&#8217;s announcement of lifting sanctions on Syria,&#8221; The State Department posted on X platform, adding: &#8220;It is a new page being written in US-Syrian relations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fedaa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, SANA-The US State Department confirmed that raising the American flag for the first time since 2012 over the ambassador&#8217;s residence in the capital, Damascus, in the presence of US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack, represents a &#8220;milestone moment.&#8221; &#8220;This is a symbolic step that coincides with Washington&#8217;s announcement of lifting sanctions on Syria,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":357875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,23,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-news-bar","category-syria-and-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357876,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357874\/revisions\/357876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}