Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Sunday that President Donald Trump “engaged personally” with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) command Mazloum Abdi to halt clashes between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led SDF in late January.

“The President engaged personally not once but twice with al-Sharaa, and he said stop the fighting so that we can move the ISIS prisoners that are there,” Rubio said at a press conference with Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico in Bratislava on Sunday.

“He said, ‘Stop the fighting so that we can move these ISIS prisoners and so that you can — we have more time to work on this…

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