FILE - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during ... a major threat following the ouster of Bashar Assad's government, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told The Associated Press.

“We’ve worked alongside the SDF for some time,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin acknowledged ... Prior to the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad this past December, U.S. diplomats ...

The U.S. needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Islamic State group from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar ... Secretary Lloyd Austin told The ...

Debra Tice said she had "no idea" where her son was following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, abducted in Syria while on a reporting trip in ...

Debra Tice, whose son Austin was ... with Ahmed al-Shara, whose rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham led the sudden offensive last month that toppled President Bashar al-Assad, ending more than ...

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Austin is the secretary of defense ... it couldn’t even prop up a valued client like the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Meanwhile, Ukraine stands strong and defiant as a free and sovereign ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who has been missing ... by the astonishing collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime here last month.

Afterwards, Nizar said: "[Al-Sharaa] believes like all of us that Austin ... Bashar, but hopes faded as he instead continued his father's repressive policies. When protesters rose up in 2011 ...

The Syrian military defector who documented atrocities committed by the Bashar Assad regime by smuggling tens of thousands of ...

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