US Central Command on Wednesday announced that it supported a series of operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria from May 21 to May 27, as US troops remain involved in combat in the two countries. CENTCOM said that from May 21 to May 22, it supported the US-backed...
Updated 6/4/2025 2:00 PM Eastern For the first time since the regime change in Syria in December and the subsequent Israeli invasion of the southwest frontier of the country, Israel reported rocket attacks against their territory, in the occupied Golan Heights, coming...
In December after the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power in Syria, the Biden Administration lifted the $10 million bounty on the head of Ahmed al-Sharaa, formerly known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani. Sharaa has gone on quite an effort to...
The US has pulled about 500 troops out of Syria in recent weeks, bringing the total number of US servicemen in the country to about 1,500. The drawdown is part of a plan that the Pentagon announced in April to bring the total number of US troops in Syria to under...
The position of the United States on the Islamist Syrian government has been complex since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power in December. The HTS, after all, was effectively al-Qaeda’s Syria branch up until it distanced itself from the parent group, with...
At least three members of the Kurdish Asayish security forces were killed today in northeastern Syria, according to the group. They said they were targeted by an ISIS cell during a patrol on the road between Raqqa and Hasakeh. The patrol was targeted with a landmine,...
The US reopened the US ambassador's residence in Damascus on Thursday as the Trump administration is building ties with the new Syrian government led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who led the assault that ousted former President Bashar al-Assad. "Our...
According to reports citing unnamed sources, Israel and Syria have recent held direct security talks with one another. The talks are said to have happened in the wake of indirect talks between the two sides involving intermediaries, which have been confirmed. The...
On Saturday, President Trump's special envoy met with Ahmed al-Sharaa, the former al-Qaeda leader who is now Syria's de facto president, after the State Department announced it was lifting some sanctions on Syria. Tom Barrack, the US ambassador to Turkey who now also...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s recent warning that Syria may be on the verge of another “full scale civil war” seems increasingly more possible, with sectarian tensions erupting on multiple fronts, as the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) government’s promise of...
