U.S. Returns Ambassador To Syria

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States plans to return its ambassador to
Syria in an effort to normalize relations with the Arab country.
Officials said President Barack Obama has approved a State Department
plan to send an ambassador to Damascus after a four-year absence. They said
the envoy would probably arrive in the Syrian capital by September 2009 as
part of a U.S. effort to restore security cooperation with the regime of
President Bashar Assad.