The French and German foreign ministers have met Syria’s new leaders and called for an inclusive transition of power, in the first visit by European Union ministers to Syria since the Assad regime fell in December.

By bnm Cairo bureau French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot and his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock visited Damascus on January 3, urging the new Islamist regime to conduct a peaceful and inclusive transition of power in Syria,

The foreign ministers from Germany and France arrived in Damascus on Friday morning for talks with the transitional government formed by the militant groups that drove former Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad from the country.