The consequences of Turkey’s and its Islamist allies’ potential takeover of northeastern Syria are profound, with significant implications for U.S. national security interests.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempseyraised the same ideaof an American training mission in Syria in October. While the four-star general was quick to point out discussions on a U.S. training mission in Syria are still preliminary, he noted that military advise and assis...
Today, theIslamic Resistance in Iraqoperates as a cohesive force rather than as a singular entity. That is to say, as a network its objectives often align with Iran’s goal of preserving its influence across the region, but on a national level – in Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon ...
Months into the imposition of new sanctions under the act, “we are seeing that the Assad regime and its allies have no answer for it,” Joel Rayburn, the State Department's special envoy to Syria, said Tuesday. Until there is meaningful progress on implementing UN resolutions aimed ...
launched a nearly four-hour attack on a small group of 40 American Special Operations troops and their Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) allies at a Conoco natural gas refinery in eastern Syria. Among the largest in the area, it had multiple buildings that provided good cover. It offered the Ru...
U.S. allies in Syria accuse Turkey of giving ISIS "safe zone" Thursday's raid was the first such airborne operation conducted in government-held territory since the start of Syria's war in 2011, the Observatory said, adding that the person killed in the operation "had been a resident of...
4 more attacks on US forces in Iraq and Syria: Official Plus, Former President Donald Trump ahead in national polls, Sen. Joe Manchin’s political future, and our panel spotlights a tentative end to strikes nationwide. November 9, 2023 ...
Pro-Iran media outlets have been saying that the attack on Tanf was carried out by “Syria’s allies” — an apparent reference to Iran-backed groups — in retaliation for an attack days earlier near the historic Syrian town of Palmyra. Israel has been blamed for the attack, but U.S. ...
US allies caught on film torturing prisoners in SyriaDaniel Brown
President Joe Biden on Sunday called the extraordinary fall of the Assad regime in Syria “a moment of risk” and “historic opportunity” while offering a blueprint for how the US plans to support the region.