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Considerations over a resurgence of the Islamic State in Syria stay heightened following the autumn of the Bashar al-Assad regime and an build up in assaults focused on U.S.-aligned Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
President-elect Donald Trump might smartly face any other spherical in opposition to the extremist staff because the SDF faces a truth during which it will must divide its focal point between ISIS and warnings levied at it by way of Turkey.
The SDF mentioned 5 of its squaddies have been killed Saturday in assaults by way of Turkish-backed forces in northern Syria, reported Reuters.
Anti-regime opponents be on one?s feet at the roadside as displaced Syrian Kurds pressure cars loaded with assets at the Aleppo-Raqqa freeway to escape disciplines at the outskirts of the northern town of Aleppo which have been previously managed by way of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), then they have been seized by way of Islamist-led rebels on Dec. 2, 2024. (RAMI AL SAYED/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
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The assaults got here following an apparent collapse in a cease-fire agreement brokered by way of the Biden management because the U.S. and the SDF ramp up efforts to counter ISIS.
Nationwide safety consultant Jake Sullivan on Sunday informed CNN that his “single biggest concern” is the go back of ISIS, which was once deemed “defeated” in 2019.
“ISIS loves vacuums,” he mentioned in connection with the extremist staff’s usefulness of energy struggles in parks like North Africa to realize footholds. “What we see in Syria presently are disciplines which are mainly ungoverned as a result of the fall of the Assad regime.
“Our function is to safeguard that we help the SDF — the Kurds — and that we conserve ISIS in test,” he added.
Comrades attend the funeral of five fighters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who were killed in Manbij during clashes with Turkish-backed opposition factions earlier this week, in Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Dec. 14, 2024. (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The U.S. has long had to balance its campaign against ISIS in Syria — which it is fighting with the help of the Kurdish coalition forces, despite Turkey deeming the SDF as akin to the terrorist network the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) — with Washington’s partnership alongside Ankara as a NATO ally.
“The SDF and the Assad regime have been the main fighters of ISIS,” Bill Roggio, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and founding editor of “The Lengthy Conflict Magazine,” told Fox News Digital. “With the previous long gone and the utmost underneath force from Turkish proxies, considerations in regards to the growth of ISIS are warranted.”
“Turkey needs to break the SDF,” Roggio confirmed. “Turkey has the best alternative to break the SDF, and it’s going to profit from this distinctive condition. I be expecting assault[s] in opposition to the SDF to extend.”
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The Biden administration has already taken steps to ramp up its campaign against ISIS, hitting more than 75 sites in a significant strike earlier this month on known “ISIS leaders, operatives and camps,” U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed.
A soldier from the US-led coalition gestures towards schoolchildren during a joint U.S.- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) patrol in the countryside of Qamishli in northeastern Syria Feb. 8, 2024. (Reuters/Orhan Qereman)
The operation coincided with the fall of Damascus on Dec. 8 following a sweeping takeover of Aleppo, Hama and Homs by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which was aided by the Turkey-backed Syrian National Army (SNA).
In addition, CENTCOM on Thursday killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif aka Mahmud using a precision airstrike in eastern Syria — an area where, according to Syrian news outlets, ISIS has been able to seize weapons depots belonging to the former Syrian military under the Assad regime amid the “chaos.”
SDF forces in an try to clamp ailing on ISIS uprisings captured 18 ISIS terrorists and suspected collaborators on Sunday close town of Raqqa, which was once an ISIS stronghold, in line with ANF Information.
The marketing campaign was once reportedly carried out “in cooperation with the world coalition forces,” but CENTCOM has not yet confirmed whether the U.S. was involved.
US forces provide military training to members of the YPG/SDF, which Turkey consider as an extension of PKK in Syria, in the Qamisli district in the Al-Hasakah province, Syria on Aug. 18, 2023. The PKK is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Turkiye, and the European Union. (Hedil Amir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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But concern remains high that the SDF could see its operational abilities divided as attacks from the Turkey-backed SNA coalition forces increase — which could spell trouble for the upcoming Trump administration as it looks to prevent another resurgence of ISIS, while balancing U.S. relations with Turkey, which is further expected to exercise outsized influence over the new Syrian government.
“We proceed to observe the condition in Syria,” Brian Hughes, Trump-Vance Transition spokesperson said in response to questions from Fox News Digital. “President Trump is dedicated to diminishing warnings to pleasure and balance within the Center East and to protective American citizens right here at house.”