The U.S. has long opposed any normalization with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Arab foreign ministers on Sunday reintegrated the Syrian regime into the Arab League. The move comes at a time when the Syrian president is in dire need of investors to tackle the huge reconstruction project in his country. "We continue to believe that we will not normalize our relations with the Assad regime and we do not support our allies and partners who do," says State Department spokesman Vedant Patel.