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

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

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

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

It likely won't lead to the violence and humiliation of other botched departures, including from the same region in 2019 ...

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

Turkey’s concerns about the PKK led it to launch an invasion of Syria in 2016 to deprive Kurdish fighters of a quasi-state along its border. Two more military forays followed in 2018 and 2019.

Currently, they are secured by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF ... are also being held as a result of their surrender in 2019 to the US-backed SDF and ended up in prisons.

JEROME DREVON is Senior Analyst in Jihad and Modern Conflict at the International Crisis Group. He is the author of From ...