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Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa assembly with U.S. President Donald Trump on the White House in Washington D.C., on November 10, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP
Islamist interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, himself a former jihadist, turned the primary Syrian chief to go to the White House since his nation’s independence in 1946.
Shortly after his go to, the U.S.-led coalition combating the Islamic State group (IS) introduced that Syria had turn out to be its ninetieth member.
On Thursday (November 13), Mr. Barrack wrote on X that “Damascus will now actively help us in confronting and dismantling the remnants of ISIS, the IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps), Hamas, Hizballah, and different terrorist networks”.
Iran’s highly effective IRGC and Lebanon’s Hezbollah had been key backers of President Bashar al-Assad earlier than he was ousted final December by a insurgent coalition led by Mr. Sharaa.
Hamas doesn’t have an armed presence in Syria.
Mr. Barrack additionally stated he held a “pivotal” assembly with U.S. high diplomat Marco Rubio, Turkey’s Hakan Fidan and Syria’s Asaad al-Shaibani, throughout which they mentioned steps in direction of “integrating the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) into the brand new Syrian financial, defence and civic construction”.
Backed by Washington, the Kurdish-led SDF performed a key function in unseating IS from its final strongholds in Syria.
SDF chief Mazloum Abdi advised AFP final month that he had reached a “preliminary settlement” with Damascus on the combination of his troops into Syria’s army and safety forces.
In a put up on X on Tuesday (November 11), Mr. Abdi stated he had mentioned with Mr. Barrack, “our dedication to speed up the combination of the SDF into the Syrian state”.
Mr. Sharaa’s administration and the SDF had signed an settlement in March to combine into nationwide civilian and army establishments, but it surely has confronted hurdles since.
Published – November 14, 2025 12:38 am IST
