Since 2011, Assad and other senior Syrian officials have faced harsh U.S. sanctions. However, as of mid-June, Trump enacted new sanctions applicable to a sweeping array of the Syrian populace. That includes any Syrian or non-Syrian who aids or does business with the Assad government, or wi...
Rebel factions took control of Syria with minimal opposition after President Bashar al-Assad fled the country for Moscow on Sunday. Taking advantage of the power vacuum resulting from Assad’s departure, Israel launched strikes on Syrian military assets, destroying most of the country’s air def...
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The Biden administration said the ease of Syrian opposition forces' capture of government-held cities demonstrates how Russia's war in Ukraine and Iran's and Iranian militias' fight against Israel in Gaza and Lebanon have diminished them. “Assad’s backers — Iran, Russia ...
“pro-regime force,” loyal to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. While the group included some Syrian government soldiers and militias, American military and intelligence officials determined the majority were private Russian paramilitary mercenaries, likely affiliated with the Wagner Group, a company...
remain in the country“for the oil,”openly suggesting Washington would simply“keep”the energy resources. Since then, Syrian officials haveaccusedthe Pentagon of making off with large amounts of oil taken from provinces in the northeast, where US forces have long embedded with Kurdish militia ...
Soleimani's Quds Force, tasked with carrying out operations beyond Iran's borders, shored up support for Syrian President Bashar Assad when he appeared to be close to defeat in the civil war raging since 2011; he also helped militiamen defeat Islamic State in Iraq. ...
s largest platforms of anti-Western Islamic terrorists, drugs and arms traffickers. It energized a global resurgence of Islamic terrorism, and became a home base for scores of terrorist militias and an arena of civil wars with the participation of Turkey, Qatar, Italy, Russia, Egypt, the UAE...
BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S. airstrike targeting facilities used by Iran-backed militias in Syria appears to be a message to Tehran delivered by a new American administration still figuring out its approach to the Middle East.
“The president expressed the desire to work together to address Turkey’s security concerns in northeast Syria while stressing the importance to the United States that Turkey does not mistreat the Kurds and other Syrian Democratic Forces with whom we have fought to defeat Daesh,” White House spo...