The European Union will make contacts with the new Syrian leadership, the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Monday. Until recently, Brussels claimed to have no contact with the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS),

The European Union will be sending a diplomat to talk with the new government, the first such meeting in Syria in years. DW has the latest.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has tasked the bloc's Syrian diplomat to make contact with Syria's new government in Damascus. Announced during an EU foreign ministers' meeting, Kallas' directive signals a potential shift in EU-Syria relations,