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Syria volition play an progressive relation successful assisting the United States successful warring equipped groups, including Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah, U.S. peculiar envoy Tom Barrack said connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).
Islamist interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, himself a erstwhile jihadist, became the archetypal Syrian person to sojourn the White House since his country’s independency successful 1946.
Shortly aft his visit, the U.S.-led conjugation warring the Islamic State radical (IS) announced that Syria had go its 90th member.
On Thursday (November 13), Mr. Barrack wrote connected X that “Damascus volition present actively assistance america successful confronting and dismantling the remnants of ISIS, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), Hamas, Hizballah, and different violent networks”.
Iran’s almighty IRGC and Lebanon’s Hezbollah were cardinal backers of President Bashar al-Assad earlier helium was ousted past December by a rebel conjugation led by Mr. Sharaa.
Hamas does not person an equipped beingness successful Syria.
Mr. Barrack besides said helium held a “pivotal” gathering with U.S. apical diplomat Marco Rubio, Turkey’s Hakan Fidan and Syria’s Asaad al-Shaibani, during which they discussed steps towards “integrating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the caller Syrian economic, defence and civic structure”.
Backed by Washington, the Kurdish-led SDF played a cardinal relation successful unseating IS from its past strongholds successful Syria.
SDF person Mazloum Abdi told AFP past period that helium had reached a “preliminary agreement” with Damascus connected the integration of his troops into Syria’s subject and information forces.
In a station connected X connected Tuesday (November 11), Mr. Abdi said helium had discussed with Mr. Barrack, “our committedness to accelerate the integration of the SDF into the Syrian state”.
Mr. Sharaa’s medication and the SDF had signed an statement successful March to integrate into nationalist civilian and subject institutions, but it has faced hurdles since.
