The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) reported 22 anti-ISIS operations in Syria over the past month, killing 5 militants and capturing 19. CENTCOM said the strikes reduced ISIS’s ability to carry out local attacks and export violence globally.
“Our success in countering the ISIS threat in Syria is a notable achievement,” Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander said in a press release. “We will continue to aggressively pursue ISIS remnants in Syria while working with the Global Coalition Against ISIS to ensure the gains made against the group in Iraq and Syria are lasting and ISIS is not able to regenerate or export terrorist attacks to other countries.”
The announcement came two days after Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former al Qaeda commander, formally joined the Global Coalition Against ISIS.
Syria is now the coalition’s 90th member of the coalition, which aims to prevent foreign fighters from joining ISIS and to eliminate the group’s remaining elements across the Middle East.
Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa said the “political cooperation declaration” signed by Damascus with the international coalition affirms Syria’s role in “combating terrorism and supporting regional stability.”
📍HE President Ahmad Al-Sharaa held a meeting at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani. The meeting was warm, candid, and forward-looking, lasting for over an… pic.twitter.com/aiQxbBoHgn
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“The agreement is political and until now contains no military components,” he wrote in a post on X.
