Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, left Wednesday night for the Middle East. He will visit Syria in addition to Egypt, Israel and Jordan. Neither the dates nor the itinerary of Murphy’s trip was released by the State Department.
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