Damascus: Renewed tensions between Israel and Syria may flare up. Syria's new leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, has asked the United States to pressurise Israel to withdraw from the buffer zone in Syria ...
Five years ago, we warned that a snap decision to depart Syria — abandoning the U.S. Kurdish-led partner force that has fought the Islamic State in Syria for the ...
America has blacklisted roughly 700 people and firms in Syria. Other sanctions take aim at the country itself. In 2019 Congress passed the Caesar Act (named after a Syrian army defector who ...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to urge Trump to withdraw U.S. forces and let Ankara handle Syria. While this might align with Trump’s “America First” policy, it could destabilize ...
The last contenders are the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces , a primarily Kurdish group that occupies territory in northeastern Syria. HTS currently controls most of the territory between the ...