US envoy holds border talks with rebels: US

May 11, 2013 01:48

US ambassador to Syria Robert Ford met with Syrian rebel commanders at a border crossing with Turkey this week, the State Department confirmed today, saying the envoy crossed briefly into Syria.

Ford held talks with General Selim Idriss, who heads the rebels' Supreme Military Council, and Colonel Abdel Jabbar al-Okaidi, the head of the Free Syrian Army's fighters in Aleppo, State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said.

"While at the border crossing, he discussed the situation on the ground with commanders and other Syrians," Ventrell told AFP.

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