The Trump administration's withdrawal of troops from Syria shifts some responsibility for countering ISIS to its partners and ...

Axis of Resistance militia Uli al-Baas explained to Newsweek why "the American presence has become weaker than before" in ...

The U.S. military is withdrawing hundreds of troops from Syria, a shift the Pentagon is framing as a “consolidation” that ...

The Pentagon said that the drawdown, which will cut the U.S. military presence in Syria by half, comes after recent gains ...

The departure would return force levels to where they had been for years, after the U.S. and its allies waged a multiyear ...

while the SDF proclaimed the defeat of the group’s “caliphate” in March 2019 after seizing its final bastion in Syria. But IS still have some fighters in the countryside of both countries ...

The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 remains the subject of extensive discussion in Washington regarding its potential lifting. The sanctions imposed to condemn Bashar al-Assad ‘s ...

The Islamic State group, which was largely defeated in Syria in 2019, still has sleeper cells that have claimed responsibility for attacks, mainly in the northeast, which is controlled by U.S ...

Syria’s new president, the former rebel leader Ahmed al-Shara.Credit...Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times In an interview with The New York Times, President Ahmed al-Shara urged the United ...

Image Kurdish-led Syrian defense forces battling what were the last remnants of Islamic State forces in 2019.Credit...Ivor Prickett for The New York Times But, though it no longer holds much ...