Turkey’s foreign minister traveled to Damascus Sunday to meet with Syria’s new de facto ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the Islamist group HTS that toppled the Assad regime. According to press accounts, they discussed the need for Syria to draft a new constitution, the future of the Kurds, and Israel’s attacks on Syrian sovereignty. Meanwhile, the Biden administration is moving to lift a $10 million bounty the U.S had placed on al-Sharaa over his links to al-Qaeda. On Friday, a U.S. delegation met with him in Damascus. The foreign ministers of Jordan and Qatar are in the Syrian capital for meetings today. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has acknowledged there are now about 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria — more than double the previously announced figure of 900.