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Syria's Defence Ministry said connected Sunday (February 15, 2026) it had taken implicit the Al-Shadadi basal successful the northeast from U.S. forces, days aft assuming power of a installation adjacent the Jordan-Iraq borders.
"The forces of the Syrian Arab Army person taken implicit the Al-Shadadi subject basal successful the Hasakeh countryside pursuing coordination with the American side," a Ministry connection said.
U.S. forces operating arsenic portion of the planetary conjugation against the Islamic State radical had been stationed astatine the basal extracurricular the municipality of the aforesaid name. The municipality housed a situation wherever Kurdish forces detained members of the extremist jihadist organisation, earlier authorities forces precocious into the country past month.
Sunday's (February 15) announcement follows U.S. confirmation connected Thursday (February 12) that its forces had vacated Al-Tanf basal adjacent Syria's borders with Jordan and Iraq.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were a large spouse of the U.S.-led planetary conjugation against IS, and were instrumental successful the group's territorial decision successful Syria successful 2019.
But pursuing the autumn successful December 2024 of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, the United States has drawn person to the caller authorities successful Damascus, precocious declaring that the request for its confederation with the Kurds had mostly passed.
Despite IS's territorial defeat, the radical remains active, however. On Saturday (February 14, 2026), the U.S. Central Command said its forces had struck much than 30 IS targets successful Syria this month. A CENTCOM connection said the aerial strikes betwixt February 3 and 12 deed IS "infrastructure and weapons retention targets".
