U.S.-backed SDF forces and the Syrian government have traded blame over the escape Monday of ISIS members from the Shaddedeh prison on the border with Iraq.

By Ahmed Rasheed, Maya Gebeily and Michelle Nichols BAGHDAD/UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it was taking management responsibility for vast camps in Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children associated with Islamic State,

Syria’s tribes, sensing it was time to split from the Kurds and ally with Syria’s government, mobilised. That spelled the end for the sdf. The group’s military campaign against is was internationally lauded,

President Trump’s bet on Syria’s new leader is facing a pivotal moment, as Kurdish forces are under attack from President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces in the northeast and facing growing pressure to fold into the central government.

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"We've requested and demanded guarantees, but as always, the U.S. does not give any," the SDF's political co-chair told Newsweek.