Syria signs up to US-led coalition against ISIL

Syrian President al-Sharaa, precocious dropped from planetary ‘terror’ list, pledges practice successful combating equipped group.

Syria has signed up to articulation the planetary conjugation led by the United States to combat the ISIL (ISIS) equipped group.

The announcement, made by Syrian Information Minister Hamza al-Mustafa and US officials, came soon aft Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa arrived successful Washington and was welcomed astatine the White House by US President Donald Trump connected Monday.

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Al-Mustafa said a “political practice declaration” signed by Damascus with the planetary conjugation confirms Syria’s relation successful “combating coercion and supporting determination stability”.

“The statement is governmental and until present contains nary subject components,” helium wrote successful a station connected X.

The statement makes Syria the 90th state to articulation the coalition, which aims to forestall overseas fighters from joining ISIL’s ranks and eliminating the remaining elements of the radical from crossed the Middle East.

The announcement was expected. A spokesperson for Syria’s Ministry of Interior had announced connected Saturday, arsenic al-Sharaa was acceptable to get successful the US for his gathering with Trump, that nationwide preemptive operations were carried retired targeting ISIL cells.

According to state-run Al-Ikhbariah TV, Syrian information forces carried retired 61 raids, with 71 radical arrested and explosives and weapons seized.

On Monday, the Reuters quality bureau quoted unnamed officials arsenic saying that Syria had foiled 2 ISIL plots to assassinate al-Sharaa.

The elder Syrian information authoritative and elder Middle Eastern authoritative said the assassination plots were foiled implicit the past fewer months.

They asserted that the schemes underline the nonstop menace that al-Sharaa faces arsenic helium tries to consolidate powerfulness successful a fragmented state that has been devastated by 14 years of civilian war.

The Syrian person was praised by Trump during their gathering astatine the White House arsenic helium secured a six-month suspension of US sanctions against his country.

The 43-year-old president toppled the erstwhile Syrian President Bashar al-Assad successful December successful a swift equipped offensive.

He formerly led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an equipped radical that was an affiliate of al-Qaeda. He was taken disconnected Washington’s “terror” list past week, cancelling a $10m reward for his capture.