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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.
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 ...
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.
Beginning very early on, Assad’s military and security apparatus embraced what they called an "Assad or we burn the country" approach – but in truth, it was more Assad and we burn the country.
The speed and magnitude of Bashar al-Assad's "historic" downfall has stunned the White House. But President Biden is also taking part of the credit. In his statement, he portrayed the ...
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 ...
Assad was quoted in The Guardian as telling the Qatari paper: ... there would be no direct negotiations with Israel until a new U.S. president takes office. The U.S. was the only party qualified to sponsor any direct talks, [Assad] told the paper, but added that the Bush administration "does not have the vision or will for the peace process. It ...
Biden administration officials, watching the remarkable speed of the Syrian rebel advance, increasingly see the possibility of the regime of Bashar al-Assad falling within days, five US officials ...