Jordan and Syria have agreed to form a joint security committee to secure their border, combat arms and drug smuggling and ...

This area is not far from the Syrian border, and Iranian-backed militias in Iraq targeted it in January 2024. The drone attack killed three American service personnel in Jordan. Amman has been ...

Since capturing Damascus, Ahmed al-Sharaa (also known as Abu Mohammad al-Julani) has sought to present a pragmatic face. In interviews with the Arab press and meetings with top diplomats, he has ...

Syria and Jordan will set up a joint committee to secure their mutual border following talks between the countries' top ...

Jordan also shares borders with Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, all of which have problems with Israel and possess hostility. Jordanian political analyst Amer Sabaileh after the inauguration of ...

Ruqban and a smaller camp are located on a raised earth ledge known as a berm that runs along the border near where Syria, Jordan and Iraq meet. The numbers on the berm have ballooned in recent weeks ...

For years, the SDF has worked with U.S. forces to fight Islamic State in Syria’s northeast, defeating IS in its final holdout, Baghuz, near Syria’s Iraqi border, in March 2019. Roughly 900 U.S ...

When Jordan sealed its border in 2016 after an ISIS attack ... is now part of the anti-ISIS mission in Iraq and Syria. The presence of the U.S. military there helped protect residents from ...

The Middle East is an artificial construct created by British and French diplomats after World War I, and the recent collapse ...

The Islamic State spread from Iraq into ... so close to their border as a threat. But the Kurds were also a key partner for the United States. To fight the Islamic State in Syria, Washington ...

The stakes for the United States, with American personnel operating at small, exposed bases, are high, as they are in neighboring Iraq and ... just over the Syrian border in Jordan in January ...

near the border of Syria, which studies Middle East geopolitics. Levine pointed to Iraq, where Westerners were happy when Saddam Hussein was deposed, but which is now home to thousands of Shiite ...