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Around 1,000 US troops are stationed in Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported, and are mainly co-stationed with Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) troops. The United States is considering a complete withdrawal of its military troops from Syria,
The retreat of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the north-east marks the biggest change of control in Syria since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
A fragile truce reached this week between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led fighters was seen as a blow by many Kurds in their hard-won fight for autonomy.
Syria chaos sparks ISIS security crisis as 150 detainees relocated to Iraq amid prison breaks. Kurdish forces withdraw from detention facilities.
AMMAN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - The rapid collapse of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the northeast of the country this week triggered uncertainty over the security of around a dozen prisons and detention camps that they had been guarding,
U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.
In the autumn of 2014, the Kurdish-majority town of Kobani in northern Syria was on the brink of falling to Isis militants. Outgunned and outnumbered, Kurdish fighters were struggling to defend it — until US warplanes began dropping munitions from the sky.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have fallen from power in Syria as the U.S. shifts its backing to the country's new leaders in Damascus.
Kurdish-led fighters have long guarded facilities holding Islamic State detainees or their families, after the caliphate the group tried to establish was defeated in 2019.
In the space of two days, the Syrian military, aided by tribal militia, has driven Kurdish forces from wide swathes of northern Syria that they have held for more than a decade.
DAMASCUS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. envoy called for a truce between the Syrian government and Kurdish-led forces to be upheld, urging steps to build trust after Damascus captured swathes of the northeast in a push to reassert central authority.