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The world was caught off guard by the swift end of Bashar Assad's rule in Syria. For the US, there are risks and opportunities in a post-Assad Syria. Post-Assad Syria will be a new challenge for ...
The Turkish government demanded several things to go along with them intervening against ISIL, including a buffer zone in Northern Syria, a no-fly zone over certain parts of northern Syria, ground troops from other countries, and the training of moderate opposition forces to fight both ISIL and al-Assad. [356] [357]
In return Syrian Ambassador Faris Zain al-Din was recalled to Syria. [12] Following the 1961 Syrian coup, there was a brief period of warm relations between the United States and the Syrian Arab Republic. [13] In 1967, U.S.–Syrian relations were severed again after the Six-Day War which resulted in Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran, emphasizing Syria's role as an important and influential country in West Asia, will spare no effort to help establish security and stability in Syria," its foreign ...
For Syria’s Kurdish minority, America’s closest ally in the country, the struggle for a new order is entering a potentially even more challenging phase. Over the course of Syria’s civil war , Kurdish fighters have fended off an array of armed factions, partnered with the U.S. to rout the Islamic State group and carved out a largely ...
American, Israeli, and Turkish forces have all been involved in bombing targets across Syria over the past few days in actions said to be in support of their respective national security interests.
The government of Turkey, a NATO member with the alliance's second largest army, has had a relatively friendly relationship with Syria over a decade prior to the start of the civil unrest in Syria in 2011; Turkey, while joining calls for the Syrian government to end the violence, [146] initially objected to the demand voiced in August 2011 by ...
The rebels launched their surprise offensive on Nov. 26, attacking from areas to the north and northwest of Aleppo. It is the first time control of the city has shifted since 2016, when government ...