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The United States will work to ensure the safety of chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, the senior U.S. official said, without elaborating except to say there would not be a role for U.S. troops ...
With Assad gone, there is a lot at stake for the US, and analysts warn that it must work carefully to further its goals in the region, and avoid the country collapsing into chaos.
The focus for the U.S.. after Assad's ouster has been on the historic moment for Syria. Left unsaid: The turmoil could be good news for the U.S.
As of 2025, the United States had begun to work with the new Syrian government after the collapse of the former regime under the Assad family. The US government added Ba'athist Syria , which seized power in 1963, to its first list of " State Sponsors of Terrorism " in 1979, over its funding of Palestinian and other insurgent factions in the region.
Russia and the United States continuously argued publicly over the role played by each country in Syrian politics. Russia noted that its military presence had the approval of Syria's government. [30] Some analysts said that Assad would need support from major Sunni countries to stay in power, and that he would need the US to facilitate such ...
Following the Fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, it was unclear if the United States planned to drop Syria from the list of the State Sponsors of Terrorism, although Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which contributed to Assad's fall and was led by current Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, had been labeled as a terrorist group in 2018.
Despite US opposition to the Assad regime, America has been wary of HTS and al-Julani because of their past affiliations with al-Qaeda. Al-Julani cut ties to the group in 2016 and has since tried ...
Leaked United States diplomatic cables have been seen as showing that regime change in Syria may have been a covert foreign policy goal of the US government in the years leading up to the civil war, even during the period when President Barack Obama was publicly engaging with Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad.