U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) deploy with armored military vehicles to secure roads leading to Gweiran Prison, which houses men accused of being ISIL terrorists in Hassakeh, northeastern Syria. U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper spoke by phone with Syrian President Ahmad al-Sh»»»

The purpose of the U.S.-led anti-Daesh partnership with the YPG/PKK-dominated SDF has “largely expired,” and the Syrian government is now both willing and positioned to assume security responsibilities across the country, U.S. envoy Tom Barrack said Tuesday. Barrack noted that Damascus is prepared »»»

Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) abandoned a camp Tuesday in northeast Syria housing thousands of people linked to the ISIS group, and the Syrian military said that allowed detainees to escape. Hours later, the Syrian government and the SDF announced a new four-day truce a»»»